Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change. It presents proven models of community-based arts programs, plus techniques, discussion questions, and plentiful resources.

Writer Mat Schwarzman has mentored youth leaders across the country in community-based arts education. 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. Currently, he directs the Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community in New Orleans.

Graphic storyteller, Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist, rapper, and hip-hop musician, with two nationally-syndicated comic strips, "The K Chronicles" and "(th)ink." Knight's work as a media literacy educator with at-risk youth has been nationally recognized.