Tag Archives: legagcy

We’re Making History

Posted on September 8, 2017 by alison jeffers

Thank you to François Matarasso for the next input in our series of guest blogs. François blogs regularly on https://arestlessart.com/ and we are very grateful to him for engaging with Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art to express his ideas about … Continue reading →

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A Living Proposition

Posted on June 20, 2017 by alison jeffers

Between 2010 and 2017 we interviewed over 20 artists as part of the research for Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art. Over the next few months the blog will provide an opportunity to hear from some of them … Continue reading →

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The Dissenters

Posted on April 5, 2017 by alison jeffers

The rhetoric of dissent During our research we were really struck by Clare Higney’s metaphor in her report on the links between community arts and the trade union movement, when she described the community artist as the awkward person ‘standing … Continue reading →

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Social Archiving: a legacy of community arts?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by alison jeffers

One of the reasons for starting this blog was to make our research into community arts more accessible. Academic research isn’t always the most transparent medium; sometimes the style of writing can be really obscure or just dull; sometimes too … Continue reading →

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