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Site and Sound pdf button, catalog cover with hands lifting a woven basket to a bright blue sky
Telling Time, Telling Place pdf button, catalog cover filled with abstract green tree branches. Telling Time, Telling Place
a Healing Garden grows in North Philadelphia

includes a project essay by Penny Balkin Bach
and images of the transformation of a vacant lot into a community garden

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Site and Sound
Visions and Voices from North Philadelphia

includes a project essay by Ed Shockley;
Voices of Community, an album of original songs and poetry; and Visions of Community, a 30 minute film on city residents' history and hopes.

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Mask and Metaphor pdf button, catalog cover with a solarized mask image laying on its side against a black background. Mask and Metaphor pdf button, catalog cover with a solarized mask image laying on its side against a black background. 
Mask and Metaphor
community explorations of art and cultural identity

includes a project essay by Dit Wah Deng
and We Wear the Mask, an album of historic and original poetry created by COSACOSA youth.

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Growing, Rising, Exploring, Loving, Sailing, Soaring pdf button, catalog cover with title in playful texts, a yellow mosaic star, and gold vines.
Growing, Rising, Exploring, Loving, Sailing, Soaring!
six stories of tile and clay mosaics
at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

includes images of the creation of a six-story high mosaic "poem" with pediatric hospital patients.

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Listening for Dialogue pdf button, catalogue cover with youth block prints of peace and unity symbols in yellow, purple, blue, and green.
Listening for Dialogue
art for dialogue, understanding and healing

includes a project essay by Miriam Seidel;
an album of sixteen monologues on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and original poetry and linoleum prints by North Philadelphia youth.

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Opportunity’s Gate pdf button, catalog cover with closeup image of an iron gate colorized red against a black background.
Opportunity's Gate
community explorations of life's challenges and chances

includes a project essay by James Branch,
images of a whole-school mosaic project, and Opportunity's Gate, a 30 minute film of six theatrical vignettes by COSACOSA youth, all about opportunity.

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Memory Mine pdf button, catalog cover with a reverse negative gold-colorized image of a young person looking at his neighborhood.
Memory Mine
the story of one Philadelphia neighborhood
told in multiple art forms

includes a project essay by Elizabeth Terry;
images of community sculpture and website creation; and The Sound of His Voice, an album examining the role of men in the community.

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Connection pdf button, catalog cover with a detail of the sculpture a white cloud rising from gold hands in a blue sky, with a background image of postage stamps from around the world.
Connection
a site-specific installation
for Philadelphia International Airport

includes a project essay by Kimberly Niemela
and images of citywide collaborations among youth to create over 1,200 ceramic objects on the question "What connects us to each other?"

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Safe Harbor pdf button, catalog cover with a black and white people placing candles in the ocean and a misty figure watches, with a cobalt blue background.
Safe Harbor
community collaborative sculpture
in a healthcare setting

includes a project essay by Miriam Seidel
and shared stories of healing from community members of differing ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

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