Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts

“Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts” provides tales, tips, topics and techniques for artists, educators and activists to use when working on community-based arts projects. Ten non-fiction graphic stories created by well-known cartoonists communicate basic principles in a clear, compelling way that crosses boundaries of age, discipline and reading level.

Reviews:
Community Arts Network
Community Artists Bring Lessons About Creativity and Learning in Difficult Times
By Erica Kohl
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2005/11/community_artis.php

“One of the things I love most about this untraditional comic-styled book is the message that anyone can and should be creative. Too many times I’ve heard students, teachers and professionals of all sorts say, ‘I’ve just never been that creative,’ as if it were a biological trait or skill you acquire by a certain age or lose forever. Asking us to put on ‘conceptual glasses’ that allow us to consider creativity just a ‘muscle’ that some exercise more than others, Knight and Schwarzman urge us to suspend our disbelief surrounding the limits of human creativity. The ten stories of artists, educators and activists from across the country reiterate the importance of flexing this creative muscle.”