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TransActions #1 Chicago Editorial, Looking out over a city from Chicago
Jim Duignan I grew up in Chicago, in the moments of mural movements and ...
TransActions #1 Dublin Editorial, A tale of two cities…
Fiona Whelan & Glenn Loughran Transaction: a communicative action or activity involving two parties1 or ...
Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?
Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D. | Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at ...
The Care-Less State of Ireland: Why we need to challenge the Charity model of Social Justice
Kathleen Lynch | Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice, University ...
Art, Activism, Vulnerability and Noble Calls
Liz Burns | Liz Burns is Arts Programme Manager, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. ...
Pulp Feminism: Radical Social Histories in Hand Papermaking
Melissa Potter | Melissa Potter is an artist and Associate Professor and Director of the Book & Paper Program ...
MODE : D
Glenn Loughran | Glenn Loughran is an Artist and educator working in the National College of Art and Design ...
Reading difficult text in difficult times: A Conceptual Art Move for A Conceptual Art Time
Jorge Lucero | Jorge Lucero is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of ...
Dublin: Design and Decline
Alan Mee | Alan Mee is an architect working in urbanism, architecture, research and education at ...
An Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project with Heath Schultz
Sarah Ross & Heath Schultz | Sarah Ross is an artist and teaches at the School of the Art Institute ...
Cultural Cowardice: Contemporary arts policy and practices in Ireland and their failure to engage citizens and neighbourhoods in the process of community arts and socially engaged arts practices.
Niall O’ Baoill | Niall O Baoill is a fifty five year old friend of learning and sometimes community / youth and ...
Step High, Stoop Low: Yeats and Larkin in Chicago
Paul Durica | Paul Durica is a writer and Programs Coordinator for the Arts Club of Chicago. ...
Using Community Arts to Defeat Austerity
John Bissett | John Bissett is a community worker and activist. To whom it may concern, my name is John ...
The Politics of Listening
Fiona Whelan | Fiona Whelan is an artist and Joint Coordinator of the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Critical Practice Questions
MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & Community Education) class 2013–15: Adele Kidd, Anne Marie ...
Hope and Fear for Collaboration
Anne Marie Gerardi | Anne Marie Gerardi is a visual artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art ...
An Irrational Equation
Jackqualyn Gray | Jackqualyn Gray is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Practice: Parameters, Practices and Policies in the Formation of Teachers, Artists and Educators
Gary Granville & Nuala Hunt | Nuala Hunt is Head of Continuing Education and Joint Coordinator of MA Socially ...
Social Practice and Public Art: A survey of socially engaged art in Dublin City Council’s Public Art Programme
Gráinne Finn | Gráinne Finn is an independent curator and programme manager with the Irish Landscape ...
The Act Itself is not Enough
Louise White | Louise White is a Dublin based theatre-maker and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, ...
The Monto Cycle, 4 Projects and 5 years of Working On Site in North Inner City Dublin
Owen Boss | Owen Boss is a visual artist, co founder and co-artistic director of ANU. ...
Jane Addams and the Tradition of Community Arts Practice in Chicago
Richard Siegesmund | Richard Siegesmund is a Professor of Art and Design Education in the School of Art at ...
Build a Free Culture Space in Chicago
Stockyard Institute | Jim Duignan is an artist and Program Director of the Visual Art Education Program ...
Jacinda Julio
Jacinda Julio The birth of Chicago’s ½ Pints Poetics (HPP) dates back to the mid 90’s, when Kuumba Lynx ...
What should revolutionary artists do now?
Susy Bielak | Susy Bielak is an artist and the Associate Director of Engagement and Curator of Public Practice at ...
Ad for Socially Engaged practitioners
Jane Butler | Jane Butler is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Lucky Pierre’s Final Meals Project
Michael Thomas | Michael Thomas is the co-founder of Lucky Pierre, a collaborative group working in writing, ...
Kuumba Lynx
Jacinda In his nonfiction "history of a fiction," Jeff Chang ends his prelude stating " there are many more ...
Create Collaborative Art and the City
Ailbhe Murphy | Ailbhe Murphy is an artist and Director of Create, the National Development Agency for ...
Milton’s Lens
Chris Maguire | Chris Maguire is a Dublin based artist and community activist and teaches on the MA Socially ...
Direct Provision Centers as Manifestations of Resistance
Vukašin Nedeljkovic | Vukašin Nedeljkovic is a PhD candidate at Centre for Transcultural Research and Media ...
CITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE METROPOLIS
Jennifer Gray | Jennifer L. Gray is an Art and Architectural Historian at Columbia University and an educator ...
CAPE
Hilesh Patel and Scott Sikkema Authors’ note: because there are two authors, we refer to ourselves in ...
96 Acres and Project NIA: Building an anti-incarceration infrastructure
Bert Stabler | Bert Stabler is a Renaissance man occupying the prairie. ...