Issue #15

Fall/Winter 1997-98

Moving Communities

Cover of Issue #15

As guest editor Joan Hocky writes: “the contributors to this issue come from many places. They are pioneers who have been mining the field for years, novices who are making their first forays outside of the box, artists working in quiet, unheralded ways, and others with curriculum vitae nearly as long as this Journal. As someone who has been working for over fifteen years to combine interests in the arts, community develop­ment, and the urban infrastructure, I'm bemused by the odyssey– from the time I had the weirdest resume anyone had ever seen to now, when every artist, arts administrator and funder I speak to is (or claims to be) involved in community-based or educational art. I have been moved and inspired by the commit­ment and creativity people bring to this work…[and] wrestle with the assumptions, naivete, subtle but per­vasively patronizing tones,  or an "I" that overwhelms and overshadows this amorphous beast we call “community.” I grow frustrated by romanticized, convoluted notions of good public citizenship, as if teaching or community-organizing is inherently more generous an act than “pure” art-making. Can we admit that the same dualistic tendencies—aspiring to teach outside ourselves and wanting to be the center of the universe—co-exist whether locked in the studio or teaching hip-hop dance on a rooftop?”

Editorial team

Contributor

Joan Hocky George Emilio Sanchez Audrey Kindred Merián Soto Susanne Lacey Jennifer Monson May Joseph Ryan Gilliam Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marty Pottenger Patricia Hoffbauer Grady Hillman Terri Greiss Amy Pivar Teri Carter Lucy Fradkin Hope Clark

Intern

Vanessa Filley

Design

Andrew Fearnside

Contributing Editor

Sarah Michelson

Assistant Editor

Anya Pryor

Guest Editor

George Emilio Sanchez Joan Hocky

Advertising

Sarah Michelson

Articles

No Blood/No Foul

Oakland, California—with its history of activism, diversity, and culture— is the site of a developing public voice for youth. With a public school population of 55% African American, 20% Latino,...

Working Through Walls

Prisons are dangerous places in that the rules of law don't really apply. The punitive nature of prisons in the States require that they make conditions uncomfortable for inmates. They...

What Is To Be Changed?

As an artist, one of the ways I advance my art is to build community. For me, community is not a geographic location nor a socio-economic state of being. It...

Moving Ringside

Developing a series of techniques over the past 20 years to facilitate her desire to fly, Elizabeth Streb started her company in 1985. She says, “Ringside is a platform for...