The late Deidre Williams was an important figure in Australian community arts, as a director of CAN South Australia and subsequently as a pioneering researcher. In 1995, she published one of the earliest and best pieces of research into the social outcomes of community art practice, Creating Social Capital. At the time, I was doing the research that would become Use of Ornament? and I approached Deidre about writing a working paper on her experience in Australia. She responded with characteristic generosity, producing a text that drew on her original findings and took forward her arguments about the place of the arts in community development.
Her original study has been long out of print, but her 1997 working paper can now be downloaded at the link below
Deidre Williams – How the arts measure up (pdf)
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