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 WILLIAM CLEVELAND, Director Center for the Study of Art and Community William Cleveland is the Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community. Believing that the arts are one of America’s most neglected natural resources, he and his colleagues at the Center work to build new relationships between the arts and the broader community. Mr. Cleveland specializes in developing and assessing art-based community partnerships, management support, and training for artists and their community and institutional partners: arts organizations, schools, human service and criminal justice agencies, local and state government, business and philanthropic organizations. Before establishing the Center for the Study of Art and Community in 1990, Bill Cleveland directed the California ArtReach Program, the state’s Arts-in-Corrections Program; prior to that he lead the California State Summer School for the Arts, and the Walker Arts Center Education Department. His book, Art in Other Places, is published by Praeger. MARIA ROSARIO-JACKSON Dr. Maria-Rosario Jackson is a senior research associate and director of the Culture, Creativity and Communities Program at the Urban Institute. She also currently serves as principal investigator of the Urban Institute’s Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project and Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists. Over the course of her career, Dr. Jackson’s research has been focused on urban policy, urban poverty, community planning, the role of arts and culture in community building processes and the politics of race, ethnicity and gender in urban settings. Since her arrival at the Urban Institute in 1994, she also has served as principal investigator on the Participation Project: Artists, Communities and Cultural Citizenship; the National Community Building Network Research and Policy Program Development Project; an Assessment of the Black Community Crusade for Children, and studies of various community planning efforts in and around the country. Dr. Jackson has also participated in research efforts on crime prevention, urban parks, housing de-segregation and multi-cultural teacher education. She has provided technical assistance in planning and organizational restructuring to numerous community improvement organizations. Dr. Jackson earned a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California and a doctorate in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. DEBORAH KLEIN, Author Deborah Klein has worked in the arts for over twenty years as a practitioner, manager, educator, and consultant. Working in Australia since 1982, she has variously been the director of a design and marketing consultancy, manager of a $3.5M statewide arts sponsorship program, and general manager of an integrated exhibition / artistaccess / production / retail facility. From 1998 to 2001, Ms. Klein worked for Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation as the National Coordinator of Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium. MORRIE WARSHAWSKI, Editor Morrie Warshawski has worked in the nonprofit arts sector for over twenty-five years as an administrator, consultant, facilitator and writer. His practice has included work with state arts and regional arts agencies, foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, numerous nonprofit arts organizations in many disciplines,and individual artists. Mr. Warshawski is the author of A Planning Toolkit for State Arts Agencies, published by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and of Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants and Donations for Film and Video (Wiese Books, Los Angeles). He is the editor and co-author of the Western States Arts Federation’s From NASCAR to Cirque Du Soleil: Lessons in Audience Development, and co-author of the Grantmakers in the Arts field resource book Creative Family Giving in the Arts. More information on Morrie Warshawski can be obtained at his website—www.warshawski.com.  Artists & Communities, a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, was made possible by major funding from the: Additional support was provided by: Publication of Artists & Communities was has made possible through major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The AT&T Foundation.  SUSAN BOHN CAROL BROWN MICHAEL BZDAK LISA FRIGAND RUTH HOUGHTON ABEL LOPEZ MAGDA RATAJSKI CHARLES STEPHENSON  MARIBEL ALVAREZ Executive Director San Jose Center for Latino Arts San Jose, California ADAM BERNSTEIN Director Advised Funding and Regranting Programs Arts International New York, New York WIILLIAM CLEVELAND Director Center for the Study of Art and Community Minneapolis, Minnesota LAKIN RAY COOK Education Manager Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia JOHN KILLACKY Program Officer Arts and Culture The San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, California RUBY LERNER Executive Director Creative Capital Foundation New York, New York ABEL LOPEZ Associate Producing Director GALA Hispanic Theater Washington, D.C. RICK LOWE Executive Director Creative Capital New York, New York DIAN MAGIE Executive Director Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design University of North Carolina Hendersonville, North Carolina MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN Leadership and Millennium Coordinator National Endowment for the Arts Washington, D.C.  ALAN COOPER, Executive Director JULYEN NORMAN, Senior Program Officer MATT BROWN, Director of External Affairs DEBORAH KLEIN, Artists & Communities National Coordinator MICHELLE GÉCZY, Artists & Communities Program Assistant  Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation gratefully acknowledges the tireless support of the regional arts organizations:  Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation also gratefully acknowledges the tireless support of our member state arts agencies:  Special thanks to Barbara Fulton Moran for her insightful comments regarding the text of this publication. |
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