Research Studies,
REPORTS, AND PAPERS

Informal Arts: Finding Cohesion, Capacity and Other
Cultural Benefits in Unexpected Places

The Center’s groundbreaking study revealed high levels of participation and
a rich continuum of informal arts activities in neighborhoods throughout the city of Chicago.
It demonstrates that the informal arts are a powerful source of individual satisfaction and social capital in communities, and that the arts have real value and a deep capacity to
shape the ways in which communities develop. More...

Alaka Wali, PhD., Principal Investigator

Rebecca Severson, M.A., Ethnographer
Mario Longoni, M.A., Ethnographer

The full report is available in PDF (download free Reader from Adobe).

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