Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice documents the first such Summer School in 2018, an initiative of the Arts Council. The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a four day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. Facilitated by Mary Ann deVlieg and Khaled Barakeh, a…
Field: A journal of socially-engaged art criticism, Issue 12/13 Guest edited by Gregory Sholette, this special double issue of Field focuses on new forms of cultural and artistic activism that have emerged in response to the recent global rise of right wing populist and authoritarian forms of government. Sholette is a socially engaged arts practitioner,…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. The Art of Relevance by Nina Simon is our choice this month. Nina was until recently the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (“The MAH”), where she employed the Of/By/For All…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. This month, we’re doing something a bit different! We’re so often impressed by the work of A Blade of Grass, that we wanted to highlight just some of the great resources – videos, articles, and interviews, they…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. For April 2019, we will focus on Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism, by Gregory Sholette, with an introduction by Kim Charnley and foreword by Lucy R. Lippard. In the aftermath of…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. For January 2019, we will spotlight Durty Words: A space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation. Edited and designed by Victoria Brunetta and Kate O’Shea, this book features 134 contributors, and is rich with illustration, photography,…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. This time, we’re focusing on What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, by Tom Finkelpearl. In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, co-authored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. Our inaugural featured publication is Learning In Public: TransEuropean Collaborations In Socially Engaged Art. Reflecting on the first four years of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), Learning in Public: transEuropean Collaborations in Socially Engaged Art…
