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The National Endowment for the Arts has recently awarded Cultural Resources a $10,000 grant to develop the Creative Communities Workbook.
Based on the recent Creative Communities Institute© sponsored by Five Rivers Arts Alliance in Brunswick, Maine, the workbook present the basic principles of discovery research, community organizing, asset-based planning, cultural tourism and ethnographic marketing. It will also present other models for sustaining local culture that will help communities balance cultural, economic and environmental interests. The workbook will be available in May, 2007 through Cultural Resources, Inc.
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Cultural Resources, Inc. director, Kathleen Mundell spent part of the summer on a tour of Turkey. As part of an international education program sponsored by the Philadelphia Dialog Forum, Ms. Mundell traveled throughout Turkey with fellow folklorists Rita Moonsammy and Iveta Pirgova.
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In 2007, Ms. Mundell will be a co-curator of the Southern Arts Federation “American Masters” exhibition featuring master contemporary and traditional craft artists from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibit will tour the region in 2007 –2008..
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