First Generation – Page 4

Understanding the resilience of community art

Working in community art often feels precarious, certainly in comparison to more institutionalised areas of the arts sector. Funding tends

More insights from the past: the London Community Video Archive is a fantastic showcase of the work being made in the

Someone recently suggested to me that I should speak of ‘Art in the Community’ because community art seemed to be

‘But what is it for?’ was a question often asked by funders. There has been at least one serious attempt

On 1 & 2 October 2016, almost 300 temporary Fun Palaces were created in Britain, Ireland, France, Norway, Australia and New

‘Art was always used at Craigmillar as a frontline activity, as a language of regeneration: it was about fighting talk,

My early steps in community art In 1982, I got a job as a community arts worker on a council

A few weeks ago, I spent a day with John Fox and Sue Gill at their home on Morecambe Bay.

Is participatory art essentially about artists creating work from the raw material of other people’s life experience? That seems to

‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ L.P. Hartley, The Go Between (1953) Part of what