CommunityArts.net Information exchange, research and critical dialogue
Title
Community Arts Network
Description
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina. For a complete explanation of CAN's mission and activities, see the Welcome page.
Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit organization providing information and resources in support of art that is culturally engaged and serving communities. API's co-directors, Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland, founded and edited High Performance magazine for its entire 20 years, with an increasing focus on the field of community arts and art for social justice. In 1995 they sharpened their focus and mission by creating a new nonprofit organization, Art in the Public Interest, and, with Virginia Tech, founding the Community Arts Network in 1999.
Joining Burnham and Durland as founding directors were artists Robert H. Leonard and Ann Kilkelly, both faculty members in the Department of Theatre Arts at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The university's interest in the field of community arts was rooted in the Department of Theatre Arts' Consortium for the Study of Theatre and Community, organized by Leonard and Kilkelly to bring together members of community-based theater ensembles from across the U.S. to share resources and concerns. Many of the consortium members went on to found the Network of Ensemble Theater.
Contact
- ART IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
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- SAXAPAHAW NC
- US 27340-0068
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