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Methodology
Experience
Publications about Lily Yeh
Links

METHODOLOGY
"Warrior Angel: The Work of Lily Yeh" by Bill Moskin and Jill Jackson, a paper on her methodology of using art to transform and build community, is available for download.

EXPERIENCE
Lily Yeh's CV

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT LILY YEH
2007Jennifer Moroz, "'How do you find the will to live?'," The Philadelphia Inquirer
2006Lynne Elizabeth & Suzanne Young, editors, "Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts"
2006Carol Pobanz, "The Rwanda Healing Project," World & I, Innovative Approaches to Peace, Jan. - Feb.
2006Virginia K. Nalencz, "The Owl and the Phoenix," Temple Review, Temple University, Spring
2005Abby Asher," From Abandoned to Beautiful," YES Magazine
2005Mary Hufford & Rosina Miller, "Piecing Together The Fragments, An Ethonography of Leadership For Social Change in North Central Philadelphia 2004-2005," Center for Folklore and Ethonography, University of Pennsylvania
2005Keith Knight & Mat Schwarzman, edited by William Cleveland, "Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts," New Village Press
2004Bill Moskin & Jill Jackson, "Warrior Angel, the Work of Lily Yeh"
2004 Hu Pei, " Wen Ro di Li Lian (The Power of Tenderness," Art Weekly, China Cultural Newspaper
2004 Shin, "Fei Shu Shan Shen Zhen di Tong Fan Jei Xui (Eastern Philosophy Growing from Trash Piles)," VIP SINA magazine, Beijing
2004Rosina S. Miller, "Unhaunting the Village: Critical Regionalism and 'Luminous Place' at the Village of Arts and Humanities," Journal of American Folklore 117(466):446-454
2003Cristy West, "Lily Yeh, Filling the niches of North Philadelphia with creativity and hope," Orion magazine
2003Sharon Abercrombie, "Inner City, Inner Light," Earth Light, Issue 49
2003Barbara Dunn, "Sowing Seeds of Hope in Philadelphia Gardens," Pennsylvania magazine, Nov/Dec
2003Liu Lin, "Yeh Lei Lei huo 'gai bian shi jie di lin hsiu jian' (Lily Yeh winning 'Leadership in a Chinaging World Award')," Shi Jie Ri bao (World Journal), October 13
2003Lui Lin, "Lily Yeh's Village receives Governor's Award in environmental Excellence," (translated title), Shi Jie Ri Bao (World Journal), September 18
2002Al and Tipper Gore, "Community," Joined At the Heart, the Transformation of the American Family
2002Frank Rubino, "Pain and Possibility," Hope Magazine
2002Chin Lian, "He Ren Cue li di Shan Sui Yi Shu Chia (Landscape Artist in an African American Neighborhood)," Ming Pao Monthly, Hong Kong
2002Mat Schwarzman, "Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community," Louisiana
2002Yang Xien Ren, "Lily Yeh, From the Village of Arts and Humanities to the World," (translated title), Mei Nan Zou Kan (Southern America Weekly), Houston, June 23
2001Richard Wener, Emily Axelrod & others, "Placemaking for Change: 2001 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence," Bruner Foundation publication
2001Monica Yant-Kinney, "Risk and Renewal: Growing a Leafy Antidote to Decay," The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 29
2001Gloria Blakely, "One Million Dollars Available in Grants from Philadelphia Commerce Department," Philadelphia Sunday Sun, November 25
2001"76 Smartest Philadelphians," Philadelphia Magazine, November
2001Stephan Salisbury "Art of Survival," The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 12
2001Lise Funderburg, "The F Word: Lily Yeh," The Oprah Magazine, September
2001Susan Hagen, "Solitary Assignment," Philadelphia City Paper, September 6
2001Debra Auspitz, "Expanding Isolation," Philadelphia City Paper, September 6
2001Scott Edwards, "A Chance To Be Heard," Bucks, Mercer, and Beyond: Happenings, InterCounty Newspaper August 16
2001Alex Krieger, "Community Builders," Architecture, June
2001"Arresting Art," Philadelphia Weekly, May 30
2001Stephan Salisbury, "Troupe Movements," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24.
2001"What happened to …?" Reader's Digest, February.
2001Burt E. Schuman, "Arts Can Be Religious," Altoona Mirror, January 14.
2001Liu Lin, "Double Happiness coming to Lily Yeh's Village, winning honor and a $30,000 grant," (translated title), Shi Jie Ri Bao (World Journal), June 6
2001Yang Xien Ren, "Lily Yeh's art reaching new climax," (translated title), Mei Nan Zou Kan (Southern America Weekly), Houston, June 24
2000Photographs by Reagan Louie, interviews by Barry Dornfeld, "Reimagining The City," Local Heroes Changing America, the publication of Indivisible Project, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
2000Phil Leggiere, "Lily Yeh's Art of Transformation," The Pennsylvania Gazette, July/August
2000 Edited by Marie Cieri and Claire Peeps, "Lily Yeh," Activists Speaking Out, Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America
2000Chir Nung-shen, "Jai Huang Di Li, Shin Jian Yi Jua Hua Yuan (Seeing with delight a garden amidst Ruins)," Hsin Gu Hsiang (Homeland) magazine, Taiwan, Autumn
2000Liu Lin, "Philadelphia's Eagles professional football team assists Lily Yeh's Village with funds," (translated title), Shi Jie Ri bao (World Journal), June 10

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LINKS

Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts

Edens lost & found - Wiland-Bell Productions, LLC

The Wallace Foundation

Leadership for a Changing World, Advocacy Institute

Americans Who Tell the Truth

American Visionary Art Museum

University of Delaware

Gardens for humanity, Sedona, AZ

University of Utah

University of Maine Foundation

Taipei School for the Hearing Impaired

Community Arts Network

Designer/Builder Magazine

World & I - Innovative Approches to Peace

Texas Arts Exchange/tools for success

Yes Magazine

Slought Foundation

The Fellowship of Reconciliation

The Pennsylvania Gazette

The Arts and Healing Network

The Leeway Foundation

Bruner Foundation Inc

Universsity of Lethbridge

Bruner/Loeb Forum

Stories of American Communities

Grantmakers in the Arts

New Village Press

Family Reunion

The Eisenhower Foundation Community Partners

Pew Fellowship of the Arts

Daniel Traub

Miriam Seidel

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