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New Village Press
New Village Press is a not-for-profit book publisher founded in 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area now based in New York, New York. It began as a national publishing project of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), an educational non-profit organization founded in 1981. New Village Press books address topics in the fields of social justice, urban ecology, community development and culture such as community arts, neighborhood commons, and participatory democracy. In 2006, New Village Press was selected as the "Best Small Publisher in the East Bay", by East Bay Express. It partners with and is distributed by New York University Press. History New Village Press originated as New Village Journal, a periodical published from 1999 until 2002, which focused on the revitalization of communities. In 2018, New Village Press incorporated as its own nonprofit, separating from Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. New Village Press began a d ...
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New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University. History NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown. Directors * Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–1932 * No director, 1932–1946 * Jean B. Barr (interim director), 1946–1952 * Filmore Hyde, 1952–1957 * Wilbur McKee, acting director, 1957–1958 * William B. Harvey, 1958–1966 * Christopher Kentera, 1966–1974 * Malcolm C. Johnson, 1974–1981 * Colin Jones, 1981–1996 * Niko Pfund, 1996–2000 * Steve Maikowski, 2001–2014 * Ellen Chodosh, 2014–present Notable publications Once best known for publishing '' The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman'', NYU Press has now published numerous award-winning scholarly works, such as ''Convergence Culture'' (2007) by Henry Jenkins, ''The Rabbi's Wife'' (2006) by Shuly Schwartz, and ''The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust'' (2002). Other well-known names publ ...
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Sabra Moore
Sabra Moore (born January 25, 1943) is an American artist, writer, and activist. Her artwork is based on re-interpreting family, social, and natural history through the form of artist's books, sewn and constructed sculptures and paintings, and installations. She was a member of the Heresies Collective, the Women's Caucus for Art, and was a collaborator of the art collective RepoHistory. Moore is known for her large-scale, collaborative exhibitions of women's artwork including ''Views by Women Artists'' (1982), and the collaborative shows ''Reconstruction Project'' (1984) and ''Connections Project/Conexus'' (1987). She has exhibited her artwork widely since 1969 including 18 solo exhibitions and over 130 group exhibitions. She has authored two books, ''Petroglyphs: Ancient Language/Sacred Art'' (Clear Light Publishers 1997) and ''Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992'' (New Village Press 2016). Moore also worked for thirty years as a freelance ph ...
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Ronald Shiffman
Ronald Shiffman is a Brooklyn-based city planner, architect, professor, and author. In 1964, Ron Shiffman co-founded the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development ICCEDnow known as the Pratt Center for Community Development. CCD– the nation's largest, public interest architectural, planning and community development office in the country. In 1965 working with the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy he helped to conceive and launch the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation one of the nation's first community development corporations. In the early-1970s working with members of the AIA he established within PICCED the Pratt Architectural Collaborative a public interest architectural and design service that assisted low and moderate-income communities. He is recognized as one of the founders of the community-based development movement as well as the community design movement in America and was one of the organizers of wha ...
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Beverly Naidus
Beverly Naidus (born 1953) is an American artist, author and current faculty member of University of Washington Tacoma. She is the author of several artist books including ''One Size Does Not Fit All'' (1993) and ''What Kinda Name is That?'' (1996) which has been discussed by academics in the field including Paul Von Blum, Lucy R. Lippard and reviewed by contemporary journals. She has received multiple grants including the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant in Photography (2001) to fund her art creations and teaching. She was also a finalist in the Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital's Art Writers Grant Program (2007). Her most recent book ''Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame'' (2009) is her personal pedagogy on teaching and creating socially engaged art. She also provides suggestions on engaging students in what is most important to them. Life and career Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Naidus grew up in Massachusetts, Maine and New Jersey. She comple ...
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Karl Linn
Karl Linn (March 11, 1923 – February 3, 2005) was an American landscape architect, psychologist, educator, and community activist, best known for inspiring and guiding the creation of "neighborhood commons" on vacant lots in East Coast inner cities during the 1960s through 1980s. Employing a strategy he called "urban barnraising," he engaged neighborhood residents, volunteer professionals, students, youth teams, social activists, and community gardeners in envisioning, designing, and constructing instant, temporary, and permanent gathering spaces in neighborhoods, on college campuses, and at sites of major conferences and events. "Linn is considered 'Father of American Participatory Architecture' by many academic colleagues and architectural and environmental experts of the National Endowment for the Arts." In the 1990s his focus shifted to creating commons in community gardens. Many of his pilot projects, designed to cultivate community and peace among people, are documented in h ...
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Annie Lanzillotto
Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and performance artist. Her book, '' L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir'' was published by State University of New York Press. 2013. Her book of poetry, ''Schistsong'' was published by Bordighera Press. 2013. Her double flip book of poetry and prose, ''Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light'' and ''Pitch Roll Yaw'' was published by Guernica Editions 2018. Her podcast ''Annie's Story Cave'' commenced while sheltering in place alone in 2020. She is the Artistic Director of ''Street Cry Inc''. Lanzillotto is a member of Actors' Equity, Dramatists Guild of America, PEN America, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, ''Malìa'': a Collective of Italian American Women, The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), a blogger for i-Italy.com,Stephanie LaFarge, of Project Nim. and Dr. James Crowley of Rhode Island Hospital. She studied at The Ame ...
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Roger Katan
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double enten ...
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Spoon Jackson
Stanley Russell "Spoon" Jackson (born August 22, 1957 in Barstow, California) is an American poet serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence. Currently incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano. Jackson was convicted of the stabbing homicide of Denise Holzman, 23, in Barstow, California. Holzman, the first female switch operator for the Santa Fe Railroad, moved to Barstow five weeks prior to the murder. Jackson was incarcerated in 1977 and has served time in more than six California state prisons. Biography Spoon began writing poetry during his years at San Quentin State Prison in the 1980s. He enrolled in a four-year poetry workshop run by Judith Tannenbaum and discovered himself as a writer. Spoon played Pozzo in the 1988 production of Samuel Beckett's play '' Waiting for Godot'' directed by Jan Jonson which brought him international attention. A short documentary, ''Waiting for Godot in San Quentin,'' was produced about the making of the play by Global V ...
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Anne Herbert (writer)
Anne Herbert (1950-2015) was an American journalist and author. She was raised in Ohio and wrote mostly in California. Biography Herbert was an assistant editor of ''CoEvolution Quarterly'', a precursor to the ''Whole Earth Review''. She coined the phrases, " Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." and (paraphrasing The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Her book ''The Rising Sun Neighborhood'' was serialized in the March 1981 Whole Earth Catalog. Her book ''Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty'' was published in 2016 by New Village Press. An article in the December 1991 issue of '' Glamour'' about the history of the "random kindness" phrase described Herbert as "tall, blonde, and forty" and as living in Marin County, California. Between 2005 and 2012, she lived in the Haight-Ashbury in the guise of a street person, while writing and editing. Anne ...
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Chester Hartman
Chester W. Hartman (-2023) is an American urban planner, author, and academic. He is Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was PRRAC's Executive Director. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam as well as founder and former chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive planners and community organizers. He has served on the faculty of Harvard University, Yale University, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley, George Washington University, Columbia University, and, most recently, the University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Hartman serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of the ''Journal of Negro Education'', ''Journal of Urban Affairs'', ''Housing Policy Debate'', ''Urban Affairs Quarterly'', ''Housing Studies'', and the Nat ...
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Arlene Goldbard
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, social activist and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, and spirituality. She is best known as an advocate for cultural democracy and a creator of cultural critique and new cultural policy proposals. Arlene was born in New York, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After extended sojourns in Sacramento, Washington DC, Baltimore, Mendocino County, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area, she now resides in Lamy, NM, with her husband, the sculptor Rick Yoshimoto. Work Arlene has addressed numerous academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations. She has also provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community-based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers. They include various nonprofits such as Appalshop, Global Kids, the Independent Television Service, the ...
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Sharon Gamson Danks
Sharon Gamson Danks is an American environmental planner and landscape designer known for her advocacy of environmentally friendly schoolyards.October 13, 2010, Amanda Marrazzo, Chicago TribuneNature's classroom: Eco-friendly schoolyards a space for teaching everything from poetry to nutrition Accessed June 16, 2014, "...schoolyards are perfect settings for composting, learning about insects...."Anita Merina, National Educational Association Accessed June 16, 2014, "..says Sharon Danks, author of Asphalt to Ecosystems..."Elizabeth Manning, October 2011, Alaska Fish & Wildlife NewsSchoolyard Habitats Inspire Outdoor Learning Accessed June 16, 2014, "...Sharon Danks’ book about schoolyard habitat projects are so awe-inspiring.."Sarah Elton, Nov. 21 2013, The Globe and MailA look at five schools that are taking learning back to nature Accessed June 16, 2014, "..says Sharon Danks..."9 March 2011, School Garden WeeklyAsphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation Acc ...
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