Michael B. Schwartz
"Making Public Places Sacred Spaces"

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Michael B Schwartz: MFA 1991 University of Arizona, BFA 1988 Tyler School of Art at Temple University is a leading community based cultural development specialist with projects throughout the Americas. His artistic practice includes participatory murals, paintings, drawings, writing, teaching and organizing. His projects balance civic engagement with beautiful results. He has collaborated with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Settlement Music School, Fleisher Art Memorial, International Council of Adult Education, Audubon Society and Prescott College. Schwartz is the recipient of the Puffin Foundation and Art Matters Fellowships, a founder of the Tucson Arts Brigade (AZ), Newark Arts Alliance (DE), a past board member of the Alliance for Cultural Democracy and continues to facilitate projects in schools, community centers and neighborhoods nationwide. In May 2009 he joined other community-arts leaders at the White House to begin a historic dialogue about the role of arts in national recovery. Currently he is a correspondent with the Teaching Artist Journal, serves on the South Park Literacy Council and is a Lead Artist on several neighborhood based civic engagement projects.


Media

4/21/11 Beautifying Barrio Centro, Arizona Public Media,  by Luis Carrion



4/3/11 Tucson Fox 11 KMSB and KVOA 4 coverage of  Barrio Centro Community Paint Day

4/3/11 Neighbors: Group uses art, community to abate graffiti, Arizona Daily Star, by Shelley Shelton

7/2/10 Worth A Thousand Words, Zocalo, by Phoenix Michael

4/29/10  Great Community Mural Project Completed in Miracle Manor Neighborhood, Tucson Citizen Online


7/2009  The Long, Hot Summer of Service: Community Artists on The Job, Community Arts Net Archives, By Arlene Goldbard

 

10/10/09 Bronx Wash Community Paint Day, Americans for the Arts


10/5/09 Tucson Mural Art Project, United We Serve


7/23/09 T Q&A by Mari Herreras, Tucson Weekly


Writings by Michael B. Schwartz:

 
2011 Teaching Artist Journal Alt Space Correspondent

2006 - 11 Community Arts and Murals Blog

2009 Neighborhood-based Cultural Programs and the Emerging Eco-industrial Era, Community Arts Net Archives
This essay is part of the Community Arts Convening & Research Project, 2009-10,
funded by a Nathan Cummings Foundation grant to the Maryland Institute College of Art

Projects

Green Arts Corps
 29th St Community Mural Projects
Barrio Centro Mural Project
 Bronx Wash Mural Project
Miracle Manor Mural Project
 Collective Imprints



Professional and Social Networks:


          

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