Community Arts Network:API News/Maria X. Martinez, April 28,2009

Today CAN is glad to bring you an article arguing for art for social justice by Maria X. Martinez of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The article originally appeared the print journal Social Justice, A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order.

NYU Wagner/ April 22, 2009

Learn how Risë Wilson, founder of the Laundromat Project, transformed local coin-op laundromats into dynamic public art projects and self-sustaining revenue models. This innovative social enterprise provides communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation.

The New York Times/ Robin Pogrebin, April 21,2009

Even as arts groups around the country are cutting back because of declining endowments and donations, a new foundation to support the work of American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists is being established with an initial $10 million from the Ford Foundation.

Mercury News/Joe Rodriguez, April 20, 2009

Yosimar Reyes remembers the stares as he and his grandmother pushed a shopping cart through East San Jose streets looking for beer bottles and soda cans. The 5-cent deposits helped pay the rent for their small, two-bedroom apartment in the tough Tropicana neighborhood, but little did he know at the time he was picking up poetic gems that would pay much more later.

The Wall Street Journal/Alexandra Alter, April 17, 2009

Last month, artists Michael Di Liberto and Sunia Boneham moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood, where about 220 homes out of 5,000 sit vacant and boarded up. They lined their walls with Ms. Boneham's large, neon-hued canvases, turned a spare bedroom into a graphic-design studio and made the attic a rehearsal space for their band, Arte Povera.