Ars Subterranea
Ars Subterranea is comprised of artists, historians, and urban explorers working to create an intersection between art and architectural relics in the New York City area.
Their aim is to instigate unique perceptions of New York's history by constructing narratives around the city's forgotten relics. Projects include art installations, history-based scavenger hunts, unusual preservation campaigns, and much more.
bathosphere
"bathos - a sudden descent from very important, serious or beautiful ideas to very ordinary or trivial ones". Amongst the artists on this site is Emily Heath, whose interdisciplinary work takes a diversity of forms including
sculpture, video, sound, intervention and performance. Check out Emily's performances, in particular 'crawls with my video camera' which have taken her along and through diverse social, cultural and geographic sites.
David Harding
Personal site of David Harding, artist, educator and former head of environmental art at Glasgow School of Art - the site offers a valuable index of public art related articles and personal insights to the field.
Oddobjects
oddobjects is an eclectic resource of artists' work, articles and research. Developed by artist/educator Paul Cosgrove for use as a space for visual, written and video blogs, it has become a valuable learning and teaching resource and has developed into a serious archive of commentary on the social and cultural world.
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. Suzanne's work in education challenges the modes, sites and content of pedagogical development through engagement with context - people and place. The Oakland Projects of the 1990's, show the importance of long term engagement with communities and the radical innovations in education that can be achieved through practice.
API Art in the public interest
API is a nonprofit organization formed in 1995 to serve the information needs of artists and organizations who are bringing the arts together with community and social concerns. API's goal is to support the efforts of culturally engaged artists and organizations, both by providing information to them about the field, and by providing information about the field to the broader public. Vehicles for this information include periodicals, books, pamphlets, archives, referrals, workshops, electronic information sites and collaborations with other organizations. Check out API news for very current updates on what's happening aorund the globe!
CAN Community arts network
One of the best resources on art, education, community, research, issues - you name it CAN and API news address it. You can lose yourself happily in this site, articles, case studies, links to projects and up to date news on what's happening the world over in the arts and education. Enjoy!
EmergeD
E m e r g e D is an international artist led, non-profit organisation, who promote and enable emerging artists across a broad range of disciplines with a fresh focus on site specific, context led art works; creating accessible and inclusive projects in orphaned spaces.
Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow Women's Library (GWL) is a grassroots organisation based in the centre of the city of Glasgow. It is much more than a library - it holds an extensive archive of projects, histories and information on work achieved across a gamut of fields by an equally wide range of women. GWL is a proactive initiator of projects and has made recent important developments in the arena of adult and lifelong learning and their relation to the arts.
Minetta Brook Public Art
A non profit organisation based in New York, Minetta Brook presents public art projects, exhibitions and publications designed to strengthen relations between contemporary artists and communities internationally. Founded in 1995, the organisation has worked closely with the DIA Art Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art amongst others in developing and realising a range of ambitious projects.
NSEAD
The National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) is the leading national authority concerned with art, craft and design across all phases of education in the United Kingdom. The site contains up to date news on what's happening in art and design education, from research reports to events and innovations, as well as resources. NSEAD also operate the artist teacher scheme, a programme that recognises teaching and the teacher as a creative practitioner and encourages new modes of imaginative continuing professional development.
Proboscis
Proboscis is a creative studio which researches, develops and facilitates innovation. Collaboration is at the core of their creative practice and ethic: Proboscis works across disciplines and practices, drawing upon a network of associate artists, writers, curators, critics, designers, technologists, filmmakers, scientists and theorists to develop new ways of exploring social, cultural and creative issues.
The Camcorder Guerillas
The Camcorder Guerillas are a Glasgow-based collective of independent, radical filmakers supported in its aims by a network of members and affiliates.
cabin exchange
The cabin exchange website gives insight to a project that offers temporary exhibiton space to artists by curating work to be placed in 10 ft by 8ft storage containers on the streets of Glasgow and most recently Edinburgh. The temporary spaces are accommodated and transformed by local and international artists which aims to act as "an experiment between the conceptual
function of the spaces and the pubic reception of the artist and the work".
Originally conceived and curated by artist will foster, cabin exchange is now curated and organized by a range of artists from across the uk.
The Royston Rd Project
An excellent resource and history of the Royston Rd Project. Located in the north east of the city of Glasgow, the project is a great example of the kinds of engaged work that can be achieved within an artist/community residency programme.
Zenomap
Scotland's 2003 contribution to the Venice Biennale, curated by Francis McKee and Kay Pallister and managed by Gerrie Van Noord. The site offers links to works by 3 of the principal artists as well as links to a wide range of work by artists contributing from across Scotland.
Center for the arts in society
The Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, conducts projects that represent and embody different strategies for examining arts in society. These projects are the result of discussion and consensus among Center members, and involve collaboration across fields, partnerships with community organizations, and consultations with local arts and cultural organizations.
Cr&dall
The Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CRADALL), is a new centre based in the Department of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) at the University of Glasgow. Their focus is on social purpose and community based learning with a view to making a real difference concerning the role that adult education and lifelong learning can make to social justice, social inclusion and poverty reduction. Amongst a wide range of work, Cr&dll run a great series of free seminars involving a breadth of invited speakers that address the complexities and realities of issues of poverty and access to learning.