How art can empower and enhance community, with case studies from
Central Asia, Latin America, Africa and beyond
Showing how artists, artworks and cultural organizations affect people
and their social environments, Forces of Art is a dense, polyvocal
compendium of current thinking about the impact of art on civil society.
It features a large number of essays and case studies located all over
the world, from Central Asia to Meso and Latin America, from Africa to
Central Europe, from South and South-East Asia to the Middle East.
Contributors include: Mariam Aboughazi, Kobina Ankomah-Graham, Ilka
Eickhof, Fernando Escobar Neira, Fatin Farhat, Maya Indira Ganesh, Rocca
Holly-Nambi, Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis, Nuraini Juliastuti, Visnja
Kisic, Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Kabelo Malatsie, Jenny Mbaye, Zayd
Minty, Nadia Moreno Moya, Judith Naeff, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Joseph
Oduro-Frimpong, Arnout van Ree, Naomi Roux, Vaughn Sadie, Anna Selmeczi,
Nishant Shah, Rike Sitas, Lenneke Sipkes, Cristiana Strava, Goran Tomka,
Kasper Tromp, Minna Valjakka, Paulina E. Varas and Mark R. Westmoreland.