Creative Community - the Art of Cultural Development

The report traces the history, theoretical underpinnings, values, and methods of community cultural development practice, emphasizing its effectiveness as a response to the social and economic forces that weaken cultural ties, and offer is recommendations to strengthen and support the field.

The Creativity & Culture theme at The Rockefeller Foundation has endeavored to maintain and build on the Foundation's tradition in the arts and humanities of an "assertive humanism," responsive to contemporary social conditions. As globalization accelerates, community cultural development practice is more and more widely recognized as a powerful means of awakening and mobilizing alternatives to imposed cultural values. It is our hope that this report will help to further develop both the theory and practice of community cultural development.


About the authors


Since 1978, Adams and Goldbard have consulted with a wide variety of public and private agencies, most of them involved in cultural policy, artistic production and distribution, and cultural development planning and evaluation. The authors are happy to receive your responses to this publication directly. You may contact them by e-mailing goldbard@oz.net or by writing them at: Adams & Goldbard, PO Box 30061, Seattle, WA 98103-2061.


PARTNERSHIPS AFFIRMING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (PACT): PACT is an annual competitive program that supports community cultural development projects - projects undertaken by artists and other cultural professionals in collaboration with other community members to express identity, concerns, and aspirations through the arts and media, building cultural capacity and contributing to social change.
For printed copies of the report, please write to:

Rockefeller Foundation

Job #3186 "Creative Community"

P.O. Box 545
Mahwah, N.J. 07430