professional development

Programs and organizations that bolster the capacity of socially-engaged artists.

• Alternate Roots ROOTS Week
• Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency
• Highlander Center
• Intercultural Leadership Institute
• The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program
• Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute

impact

Resources that aid artists in designing projects with impact, as well as tools for assessment and evaluation.

• Active Voice Lab, Research
• Animating Democracy. Aesthetic Framework for Social Justice-Oriented Art. Evaluation Learning Lab. 2015.
• Animating Democracy. A Values Guide to Evaluating Arts & Social Justice Work. Evaluation Learning Lab. 2015.
• BritDoc. The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact.
• Center for Artistic Activism. Measuring the Impact of Artistic Activism. In progress.
• The Culture Group. Making Waves: A Guide to Cultural Strategy.
• Manne, Liz. #PopJustice: Social Justice and the Promise of Pop Culture Strategies. 2016.
• Van Slyke, Tracy. Spoiler Alert: How Progressives Will Break Through With Pop Culture. 2014.

general resources

Additional tools, networks, and information about the landscape of socially-engaged art.

• Art x Culture x Social Justice
• Art & Democracy
• Alliance of Artist Communities. Social Practice Toolkits. 2015.
• Imagining America
• Kocache, Moukhtar. Framing the Discourse, Advancing the Work: Philanthropy at the Nexus of Peace and Social Justice and Arts and Culture. 2014.
• Springboard for the Arts. Irrigate: a toolkit for mobilizing local artists to solve problems in your community.
• Community Arts Network Archive