Arts of Citizenship's Director, David Scobey, explains why he sees it as essential that universities collaborate with community-based organizations. You can read the text of his lecture, Putting the Academy in its Place: A Story about Park Design, Civic Engagement, and the Research University.

The Underground Railroad History Project: Press coverage of Arts of Citizenship's partnership with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, Michigan, and Wild Swan Theater of Ann Arbor, Michigan, winter 2000-2001. [University Record]

Arts of Citizenship Faculty Grant Winner (2000-2001) Sadashi Inuzuka is featured in an article about his use of ceramics to teach art to the blind and those with low vision. [University Record]

The Students on Site Project, an Arts of Citizenship partnership with the Ann Arbor Public Schools, is now in its fourth year. Read an article about some of the components of this innovative, hands-on approach to local history: [University Record]

Arts of Citizenship's community projects were the subject of a feature story in Diversity Digest, a national publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan: A Campus/Community Experiment, can be read online.

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Imagining America is a national movement to link universities with the communities they serve through arts, design, and humanities projects. Through joint inquiry and true partnerships between campus and community, Imagining America seeks to bridge the gap that has separated artists and intellectuals from the general public. For more information, see www.ia.umich.edu.

"Reinvention: Why Now? Why Us?" A powerful discussion of the role of community collaboration and democratic engagement at universities can be found in an April 2000 speech by Nancy E. Cantor, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. Read a transcript here.

The Prison Creative Arts Project--which takes art, theater, and creative writing workshops into Michigan prisons and juvenile facilities--has received support from Arts of Citizenship. This project, based at the University of Michigan, was featured in a fall 2000 article in Michigan Today.

The Detroit Observatory, helped by an Arts of Citizenship grant, produced an online virtual tour of this historic site in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Visit the Observatory here.

In fall 2000, funds from Arts of Citizenship helped make possible high-school programs linked to a special archaeology and art exhibit about ancient Pompeii, highlighting the lives of women in the Roman Empire. Read a summary of the activities of this project here.

The Making of Ann Arbor. Arts of Citizenship contributed to a joint project of the Ann Arbor District Library and the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library and Digital Library Initiative to create an illustrated local history website, "The Making of Ann Arbor."

A report from Activating the Past: An International Symposium on Historic Sites of Conscience, held on March 19, 2004 and sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program and the Arts of Citizenship Program, in collaboration with the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience.