Schwarzman, Mat

Schwarzman has been a practitioner, instructor, student, and writer in the field of community-based arts since 1985. He is founder of the Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community and directs the Creative Forces Youth Educational Theater Corps, which employs public high school students as peer educators and leaders in the rebuilding of New Orleans's educational support system. He holds a Ph.D in Transformative Learning, founded Urban Arts in Oakland, California, and chaired the Arts & Social Change Program at New College of California. Schwarzman also studied theater with John O'Neal,...