Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) University of Pennsylvania

Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) is a research group at the University  of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice in Philadelphia. Their work and projects are all available  online.
The website includes, papers, presentations and research reports:
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/siap/index.html

Cities and Their Citizens: Fostering Civic Engagement through the Arts

Governments, universities, nonprofits and others have turned to the arts to
navigate complex conversations about social cohesion, race and class, education
and participation, and civic identity. This panel focuses on the invaluable role
of arts in civic life.

Deborah Rutter, President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Walter Massey, President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Marina Peterson, Assistant Professor of Performance  Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University; Author, Sound, Space  and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles; Co-Editor, Global  Downtowns

Mark J. Stern, Professor and Director of the Social Impact of  the Arts Project, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and  Practice

Lisa Lee, Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,  Professor of Gender and Women's Studies faculty at the University of Illinois at  Chicago

Moderated by Jim Warren