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  • Local Journalism

Florida Man!

  • Deborah Fallows
  • February 16, 2024
How a regional Florida newspaper informs its citizens and encourages activism.
The Reading Garden, outside of the Dillsburg Area Public Library.
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  • Libraries

A Library Garden Celebrates Reading, Art, and Nature

  • Jordan Sandman
  • September 1, 2022
In 2015, Dillsburg, Pennsylvania relocated the town's library to a bigger space to better serve its growing population. A year later, when tragedy struck, the community stepped up to grow the library to include a reading garden.
Mac Love (center) stands in front of a mural reading "beautiful" with fellow Art x Love team members Josy Jones, Dee McCall, Gaby Barnes, and Patrick Richards (left to right) who were a part of the @Play project in Akron. Photo courtesy of Art x Love.
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  • Education

An Outsider Works with Insiders: Examples from Akron and Cleveland

  • Alex Bieler and Ben Speggen
  • August 10, 2022
Mac Love, who has spent much of his life outside Ohio, uses new technologies to bring community residents and college students together. That collaborative approach is now helping citizens’ voices be heard and is driving meaningful change in their neighborhoods.   
Charly Hamilton, reciting a passage from Julius Caesar, in front of his renowned "Wonder Wall" mural in Charleston, West Virginia. (Courtesy of Steve Ascher / HBO.)
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  • Public Art

In Honor of Charly Jupiter Hamilton

  • James Fallows
  • September 23, 2021
A person who became the soul of his community, explains his vision—in art, and in memorable words.
Charly Jupiter Hamilton Street Dedication at Wonder Mural
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  • Public Art

Charleston, West Virginia Celebrates Charly Jupiter Hamilton

  • Ben Speggen
  • July 24, 2021
“‘The Wonder Mural’ by Charly Hamilton changed an entire community. Through inclusion, Charly made a piece for the community by literally painting the community.”
Alphabet Fence at the Alphabet Reading Garden, City of Asylum.
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  • Language

Language as Art in Pittsburgh

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 21, 2016
Exiled writers use words as art and inspire a community.

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