Arts of Social
Responsibility

• Theatre of the Oppressed,  an interview with Augusto Boal
• Child Abuse Quilts: Revealing and Healing The Pain of Child Abuse
• Survivors Art Foundation

Feminism & Women's Arts Resources & Connections

 

• International Centre for Women Playwrights  
• Association of Canadian Women Composers 
• Women of Color, Women of Words - A site dedicated to African American women who have gifted/shaken up/disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard.

Access

• National Arts and Disabilities Center
• National Institute of Arts and Disabilities
• Theatre In Motion is a participatory, educational theatre company, featuring artists with and without disablities.
• National Theatre of the Deaf - "Hands tell Stories"
• Theater By The Blind
• Very Special Arts
• Arts and Disabilities
• Institute On Disability and Human Development: Model Art Therapy Project
• International Directory of Art Centers for People with Disabilities
• Research and Training Center in Art and Disabilities (RTCAD) 
• Integrated Arts- Home for Creative Expression - San Francisco Based organization working to Integrate the arts between persons with disability and persons without.

Health & Rehabilitation Issues such as Alcohol & Drugs

• The Improbable Players, based in Watertown, MA, is a professional touring theater company which gives performances about alcohol and other drug abuse. The shows are effective and powerful because the actors are recovering alcoholics and addicts. The shows' scenes, created from their real-life stories, dramatize the effects of substance abuse on the family, and its relation to other problems such as HIV/AIDS and violence.
  
• Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
• Society for the Arts in Healthcare
• Institute for Physiology and Performing Arts Medicine - Based at the Hanover University, Germany,  The Institute of Music Physiology and Performing Arts Medicine is a unique institution in Germany. The work of the institute consists of: 1) Teaching the basics of music physiology and performing arts medicine. 2) Research into the physiological principles on music making and music perception. 3) Research into the causes of occupationally derived injuries in musicians.

  4) Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of such injuries.

• Foundation for Hospital Art - Based in Georgia, The Foundation For Hospital Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to comforting people who suffer in hospitals by softening the hard walls and ceilings that surround them during their illness with warm colorful murals painted with the help of volunteers worldwide. The volunteers include the patients and medical providers themselves. This is a well organized, inspirational web resource.
• Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine - Peer-reviewed journal for sharing information concerning the practical use of alternative therapies in preventing and treating disease, healing illness, and promoting health. The Journal publishes a variety of disciplined inquiry methods, including high-quality scientific research. Many articles deal with research into and methods of arts therapies. This website offers extensive indexing of the articles but without any of the actual article text, only subscription information.
  
• Art as a Healing Force
• Arts In Medicine (AIM) 
• Creativity Cafe  - "At Creativity Cafe, we live for the artist in everyone and believe creative people have the solutions to the ills of humanity...and that everyone is creative. You are a unique individual who carries a piece of the puzzle, for creating a future world that is abundant, loving and peaceful for every person on this planet. Use this site for 'Storytelling the Future into Reality.' Share your art, insight, wisdom and solutions for a better world. Tell us your your wildest ideas and most obvious concepts that would help to make for a healthier and happier planet. ". This site offers a number of resources for artists who are active in social issues. A discussion forum is also provided.
• Drawbridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children - "Giving  homeless children the opportunity to speak the unspeakable truths about their experience through art." DrawBridge is an expressive arts program for homeless children in the San Francisco area. The website offers an online gallery as well as many resources to help us understand issues of homelessness. Well organized.
  
  
• The Enchanted Way - an art therapy approach to working with at risk children.
• Healing and the Arts.
• Visionary Arts Museum. "Art is an alchemical technology. It must be used positively to impact personal transformation, human transformation, and planetary transformation." ----Phoenix & Arabeth
• Music Used To Help Cancer Patients Heal
• Project on Death in America, Arts and Humanities Initiative - Transforming the culture of dying - The goal of transforming the culture and experience of death in America is ambitious and requires attention to the forms of expression by which illness and death and the meanings they create take shape. Individuals working in the fields of the humanities, the fine arts, and the performing arts are giving form through language and image to the experiences surrounding the end of life. The Project on Death in America wishes to encourage individuals in the literary, media, and fine arts as well as the performing arts to use their creative skills and insights to identify and convey meaning in facing illness, disability, and death; and to evoke and deepen our understanding of the diverse metaphors that shape the experiences of suffering, dying, and bereavement.
• The WHEEL COUNCIL - Wholistic Health, Education, and Empowerment for Life is a national leader in storytelling for prevention and healing, as well as accelerated, multicultural learning.

Art Therapy

• National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA)
• (Association des Art-Thérapeutes du Québec Inc.AATQ): Quebec Art Therapy Association
• Art Therapy on the Web
• American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
• International Art Therapy Links
• The American Art Therapy Association Inc.
• Art Therapy Newsgroup
• Art Therapy in Canada
• Art Therapy Literature
• National Association for Drama Therapy
• Art Therapy Student Networking Forum
• Art Therapy Mailing Lists
• Family Village Link Libraries
• The National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) - An energetic, world-wide community of people who share a love for the use of language arts in growth and healing. Members represent a wide range of professional experience, schools of therapy, educational affiliations, artistic disciplines, and other fields of training in both mental and physical health. In addition to its professional membership, NAPT welcomes all persons who are interested in the power of the healing word.
• Person Centered Expressive Therapy Institute. 
• Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) - nonprofit organization established to train, support, and promote professional development in sandplay therapy  based on the theories of C.G. Jung.
• Sandplay Therapy Bibliography - Books and articles on the topic.

Misc:

• Artists Against Racism

Artslynx International Arts Resource Homepage