McCall Blog Post in New Art and Culture Anthology

Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson and Dominic Wilson and published in November 2016 by The MIT Press, contains text from an online debate about the effectiveness of socially engaged art to which Artists in Context co-director Louisa McCall contributed.

The anthology contains essays, dialogues, and art projects—some previously published and some newly commissioned — “to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape.” In the debate about socially engaged art’s effectiveness, originally appearing online as part of A Blade of Grass’s “Growing Dialogue” series, McCall suggested we look at it differently – “as research that is indispensable to our system of knowledge production.”