the changing landscape

A curatorial wandering of arts for engagement, empowerment, and social change.

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step in cedar ridge

jetsonorama for the painted desert project

photo by saramarie bateman

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Dimitris Taxis commentary on the Greek elections...

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Hank Willis Thomas

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The Painted Desert Project: An exciting new street art initiative unfolding in the Southwest during 2012

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Participatory floating graffiti project by Boa Mistura, a Spanish art collective, in Vila Brasilandia, one of Sao Paulo's favelas.  

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Communograph

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Open Walls Baltimore

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PICA on the challenges of embedding art projects in underused neighborhood spaces...

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Here Comes the Neighborhood

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Politics, Power and Passion

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If Walls Could Talk - A Public Art Project with Incarcerated Mothers and their Children

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Occuprint: Posters from the #Occupy Movement

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Artist as Activist - A Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project

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Help-Portrait

Find someone in need. Take their portrait. Print their portrait. And deliver it to them.

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Jane Golden of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program talks at TEDxLaf

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Empowering Youth Toward Community Leadership

Throughout the first half of the Animating Democracy Blog Salon, several have spoken to the powerful potential of creative placemaking for igniting engagement and change at the local level.

By capitalizing on community assets, placemaking can aid in elevating the potential of a neighborhood’s space, reinvigorating both the physical and the psyche of the local environment.

This past summer, I had the opportunity to wander through Las Parcelas, one of the six community gardens operated by the Norris Square Neighborhood Project (NSNP) in Philadelphia.

Consisting of over three dozen plots and coming alive through the vibrant colors found within bird houses, benches, garden ornaments, murals, and a rural Puerto Rican casita, the garden has breathed life back into a community historically plagued by low-income levels, high drop-out rates, and a deadly drug culture. Continue reading →