Author: Bennett Schiff

Publication Year: 1972

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The opportunities and obstacles for arts programs in park and recreation settings are similar across the country, although circumstances differ according to location.

Abstract:

The opportunities and obstacles for arts programs in park and recreation settings are similar across the country, although circumstances differ according to location.

Even before the planning conference at the Kennedy Center, Jane A. Henzi of the National Park Service began to visit outstanding community programs in many sections of the country to gather material for case studies. A number of her reports have been summarized here.

Since this book merely sketches a range of possibilities, it could not report on all of the nation's most exciting programs. To catalog the programs of the National Park Service alone would require hundreds of pages. Thus, in this small book, it was impossible even to begin to describe many of the outstanding programs created and nurtured by community organizations virtually everywhere in the country.

CONTENTS
The cultural climate of the country:
     A great reawakening.
     Postwar upsurge in the arts.
     The American abroad.
     The American family at home.
     Arts on the campus.
     The older Americans.
     The new leisure.
     Arts in the community.

The parks, arts, and leisure project:
     Planning conference.
     Regional meetings.
     Generally speaking.

People, places, programs:
     Waterloo, Iowa: Arts for all ages.
     Palo Alto: Equal footing for the arts.
     Concord redefines recreation.
     Los Angeles: Open minds are necessary.
     Stillwater's multigraphs.
     Tulsa: Theatre '70, Happy '71, Summer '72.
     Norman's firehouse art.
     Hartford: Artists in the neighborhood.
     Wheeling: an art institute in the park.
     Boston and Summerthing.
     Charlotte: How a festival in a park was born.
     Denver and sculpture in the open.

The National Park Service and the arts:
     National capital parks.
     Summer in the parks.
     Wolf Trap Farm Park.
     Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
     Peters Valley Craftsmen.
     Artists for environment.
     Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Information, please: a checklist of resources.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Community Development