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Works of Heart
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Green Season Gift Set: Buy this book with Doing Time in the Garden!
This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects. Stories range from children building an African-inspired mud facade on their Oregon middle school to an annual blessing-procession and festival in North Philadelphia that brings to life dozens of the most depressed blocks in urban America.
All the projects in this book depict an intersection of creativity with love of place, whether it is a night-time parade of families with handmade lanterns along a Vancouver waterfront or opera stars, butchers and customers singing arias together in a Bronx Italian market. Other regions represented include Minneapolis, Boston, Berkeley, rural Maine and San Francisco.
Works of Heart offers a compendium of multi-cultural human-interest stories that will inspire and inform both community development professionals and citizen activists. It is the work of eleven contributing authors, among them a sculptor, a performance artist, a social geographer, a poet and an educator who has served as community arts advocate over 25 years.
Community culture specialist, Tom Borrup provides an introduction that reveals truths he has discovered about the generosity of the heart and the innate artistic impulse to improve one's neighborhood starting with the materials at hand. The book also includes a guide to community-based arts resources and an index.
Co-author Suzanne Young is a writer, editor, essayist, and independent communications specialist serving Fortune 500 clients. Her work has appeared in national periodicals, including the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Brevity. She was developmental editor for Designing Brand Identity, Alina Wheeler (Wiley, 2003) and a regular reviewer for Booklist (American Library Association).
Co-author Lynne Elizabeth is director of New Village Press and former editor of New Village Journal and Earthword Journal. She is a consultant on community development, sustainability, and social justice issues.