William Cleveland: The Community Arts Movement (Then and Now)

A Podcast Interview with William Cleveland In this episode, William Cleveland shares his thoughts about arts-based community development and how he conceptualizes development. He also discusses the nonprofit industrial complex and how it interacts with the arts and community change. Additionally, he digs into the idea that arts are inseperable from human experience and sensemaking. Since 1991, William has been the Director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community, based on Bainbridge Island, WA. Principal consultant and founder of an arts consulting and research organization specializing in arts-based community development and management support and training. The Center provides programs and services in the following areas: strategic and market planning, research and evaluation, and comprehensive training in support of arts based development and arts education. CSA&C’s clients come from the arts, education, health/human services, criminal justice, government and philanthropic sectors. William Cleveland is a pioneer in the community arts movement and one of its most poetic documenters. His books, Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America’s Community and Social Institutions, Making Exact Change, and Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines are considered seminal works in the field of arts-based community development. He is an activist, teacher, lecturer, and musician. Interviewers: Thomas Murray, MFA candidate in Theatre's Directing and Public Dialogue program; Sarah Lyon-Hill, PhD candidate in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program Presented in partnership with the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts.