Just read the first 41 pages (~3,330 words / 23 minutes).“The Art and Social Practice Workbook is a collaborative and interactive project. It is comprised of assignments, handouts, evaluation tools, and other resources to be used as needed in your programs, classes, institutions, and life. The book is structured in a non-linear way; you do not have to read it from page to page like you would a novel. Instead, use it like you would a cookbook, adapting or revising the assignments to your taste. The Art and Social Practice workbook is an unfinished experiment, two years in the making and still growing. It remains in a stage of development and its progress depends on you.”

“Renowned performance artist William Pope.L has a proposition for Cleveland: can we manually pull an 8-ton truck through the city for over two days straight, as a testament to the power of shared labor? Pull! is a durational. city-wide community performance piece, in which hundreds of Clevelanders will manually pull a truck for 25 miles, through the neighborhoods of North Collinwood, Glenville, University Circle, Hough, AsiaTown and downtown; to West Park, Clark-Fulton and Ohio City. Over 1,000 images collected from people across Cleveland about what work means to them will be projected from the back of the truck as it is pulled through the city. An excerpt of this video is on view at SPACES from May 17 – July 19, 2013. Pull! is a show of strength that can only happen if thousands of people team together. It celebrates the labor that built the city of Cleveland and is a living reminder we should be proud of hard work (especially when we do it together). We spend half our lives working and the other half avoiding it. Work puts food on our table and our kids through school. Our jobs (or lack of jobs) shape our lives for good and bad. Pull! will provide a moment for the diverse people of Cleveland to work together, eat together, pull together and talk together about one of the most powerful, meaningful forces in our lives—our jobs. And, to accomplish all of this through a community art performance project made for and by the people of Cleveland.”

“Public Artist reinventing community revitalization as an art form by transforming a long-neglected neighborhood in Houston into a visionary amalgam of arts venue, community support center, and historic preservation initiative.”

“Times Square Broadway Plaza between 43rd & 44th Sts | September 20, 2013, October 6-9, 2013. Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False)." The sign itself is just a catalyst for conversations and contemplation. It is really only activated in the public square.

“Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling, wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. So he did, transforming abandoned buildings to create community hubs that connect and inspire those who still live there (and draw in those who don't). In this passionate talk, Gates describes his efforts to build a "miniature Versailles" in Chicago, and he shares his fervent belief that culture can be a catalyst for social transformation in any city, anywhere.”