Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit
organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of
a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value
both to communities and artists. To that end we are involved in the following
programs and services:
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The Community Arts Network (CAN) project promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit or tradition. The CAN project was created through a partnership between Art in the Public Interest and The Virginia Tech Department of Theatre Arts' Consortium for the Study of Theatre and Community. API manages the CAN Web site. Please visit to view our ever-expanding library and archive of articles and essays on community art plus an extensive set of links to other resources on the Web.
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APInews is our monthly newsletter covering the field of community-based art. Current and back issues are available on the CAN Web site. It is also available via email. The email version of APInews is hosted by Virginia Tech. Click here to subscribe.
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High Performance magazine was a quarterly magazine published by API and edited by API codirectors Burnham and Durland from 1978 until it folded in 1997. We maintain an archival High Performance Web site where you can find a complete list of issues and contents from the magazine's 20-year history. A number of essays from the magazine are available online in the Community Arts Network Reading Room.
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This anthology of High Performance was edited by API codirectors Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland and published by Critical Press in 1998. Stories were selected for this anthology specifically to illustrate the development of socially engaged art as it appeared in the magazine over that 20-year span.
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