PRINCIPLES AND PRAXIS
StoryShift is a program of Working Films that is committed to changing the way stories are told to ensure accountable and authentic representation of the people and places featured. StoryShift aims to dismantle extractive filmmaking, which is too often the standard in the documentary sector. By interviewing filmmakers and other stakeholders about their practices, this series works toward envisioning what truly accountable and authentic processes look like and how they can be embraced.

ARTS IN PLACE
This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analyzing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the process. Drawing on examples of local level projects from the USA and Europe, the book explores the impact of these projects on the people involved, on their relationship to the place around them, and on city policy and planning practice.

WHAT WE MADE
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. 

ART AS SOCIAL ACTION
Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as social practice.

OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRAINING
In recent years, an increasing number of artists and arts organizations have been joining in partnerships with other community sectors to advance the healthy development of their communities. The result is a proliferation of cross-sector collaborations and opportunities. In the fall of 2015, Intermedia Arts joined with Animating Democracy to create a study designed to learn more about where community arts training is currently taking place and where there may be future interest.

CREATING CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE ARTISTS IN ANTI-DISPLACEMENT
As neighborhoods gentrify the fear of displacement increases and the narrative of the arts as a catalyst to gentrification and subsequent displacement comes into play. What is the role of the arts in anti-displacement?

ART SPACES, ART PLACES: EXAMINING NEIGHBORHOOD PREFERENCES OF NEW YORK ARTS ORGANIZATION

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND THE ARTS
This paper focuses on one aspect of the social impact of the arts: their influence on civic engagement. Its purpose is to assess the current state of knowledge about the relationship between the arts and civic engagement and to suggest documentation and evaluation strategies that artists, cultural and community organizations, philanthropists, and public agencies could take to improve the quality of that knowledge.

BEYOND THE BUILDING: PERFORMING ARTS AND TRANSFORMING PLACE
A white paper based on the "Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place" convening which was held by the National Endowment for the Arts with support from ArtPlace America in November 2014. The convening focused on developing a better understanding of how performance-based organizations, and the artists they engage, use the term creative placemaking and transform places through their artistic practices.

PEOPLE, LAND, ARTS, CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT