Art in the Dialogue on Race

One of ROOTS Charleston Rhizome productions.

Charleston City Gallery at Waterfront Park. 2004

FIRST, June 6-8 2003: “Making Art, Making Home” – a Resources for Social Change workshop in Charleston created by a partnership of Spoleto’s “Rehearsing the Past” and Alternate Roots.

NEXT, Summer 2003: A conversation on the Community Arts Network, thanks to Art in the Public Interest. See it at;

AND THEN: In an attempt to cross cultural barriers and to understand the various ingredients in the soup of words, we switch from authors of our own words to performers of others’.

See:

Making Community: Voices from the dialogues
Notes from the “Making Art/Making Home” workshops, bringing forth the voices of those who were
there. By Gwylene Gallimard (October 2003)
ROOTS Goes to Spoleto: A Report
Report on “Making Art/Making Home,” Alternate ROOTS Workshop at 2003 Spoleto Festival USA. By
Frank Martin (October 2003)
Afterwords: A Conversation Around “Making Art/Making Home”
An online discussion of issues and ideas arising in an Alternate ROOTS collaboration with 2003
Spoleto Festival USA. (October 2003)
Afterwords: A Conversation Around “Making Art/Making Home” – Part 2
An online discussion of issues and ideas arising in an Alternate ROOTS collaboration with 2003
Spoleto Festival USA. Part 2 (October 2003)

THE AUTHORS AND/OR READERS ARE:

Neill Bogan, Dana Brown, Tomas Bubilek, Jim Campbell, Arianne King Comer, Dena Davis, Felicia Furman Dryden, Omari Fox, Gwylene Gallimard, Pamella Gibbs, Amy Horwitz, Pierre Johnson, Bob Leonard, Tina Marshall-Bradley, Frank Martin, Jean-Marie Mauclet, Lasheia Oubre, Latonnya Wallace, Nayo Watkins, Frances Watson, Sam Watson, Darryl Wellington, Patton White, John Wright.