• Listen to an audio recording of the panel discussion here. (Please note download takes a few minutes)

• Purchase a copy of "Third Ward TX" or learn more about the film and its creators here.

• Visit the Project Rowhouses website here.

• Visit the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center's website here.
  

• Visit Neighborhoods Partnership Network's website here.

• Learn more about the Institute for Community Development's programs for revitalizing blighted properties and reselling at an affordable rate here.

• Learn more about community-based art in New Orleans and around the country at the Community Arts Network. Click here.

"It is essential that any public planning process, especially now in New Orleans, include residents as stakeholders. Residents are most directly impacted by decisions about neighborhood development. Community arts activities are a useful tool to engage residents in the creative process of visioning the future of their neighborhood."

From "New Orleans, As It Is" by New Orleans community artist Mat Schwartzman. Read the whole article here.

What kinds of community-based art projects are happening in New Orleans? Read about work that panelists Rick Lowe and Stephanie McKee as well as other artists and groups are up to in Jan Cohen-Cruz's article "Art in Rebuilding Community: The Transforma Project in New Orleans." Click here.

Photos from the event:

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