Building Community Through Innovation in the Arts

The report focuses on projects that live the ideal of making art an integral part of people's lives. For example, the report explores larger institutions that are literally changing the way their community interacts with art -- whether it's Opera Philadelphia surprising an entire city with its Random Acts of Culture, or the Akron Art Museum's goal of bringing residents closer to the artistic experience. You can also read about smaller, grassroots efforts, like a poetry festival in Miami that has experimented with ways to bring a poem to each one of the area's 2.6 million residents, and a St. Paul group that has sparked a national movement to make buying art as easy as participating in a local farm share program