Valleys Kids
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
Category: Second generation
An elegy for ‘The Public’
I only saw The Public from a distance, from the other side of the Midlands, but I liked what I
Relieved of duty
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar
If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory
Why are there so few books about community art?
There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists
‘Just watch, and listen, and take in their story.’
Don’t feel guilty. Don’t feel sorry. Don’t look away. Just watch, and listen, and take in their story. This Is
‘I hope it was a slight jolt for the public.’
We’re here Choked by this #Somme100 commemoration. At a time when being British makes little sense, just beautiful. #wearehere Tweet
‘We want to be remembered.’
‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got
Access to the means of cultural production
Participatory art depends on many things, including some that it is easy, in more affluent parts of the world, to
‘Have I got to go somewhere?’
‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It
