Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist known for founding the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, a national model in creative placemaking and participatory community building through the arts. In 2002, Yeh founded Barefoot Artists, to bring transformative artmaking to impoverished communities in multiple countries (including Kenya, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Rwanda, China, Taiwan, Ecuador, Syria, Republic of Georgia, Haiti, Germany, Palestine, and the United States. Lily is the author of Awakening Creativity.
"""Creativity is a certain flare of spirit that is truly unlike
anything else. Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms is a
call for social change through creativity from Lily Yeh, as she
shares her own drive to make the world a better place through art
and tells her story of turning a wasted factory space in Beijing
into something that is so much more - the Dandelion school, aimed
at the local children to give them inspiration for a better future.
With a certain dedication, Awakening Creativity comes with a
powerful message that definitely should not be overlooked.""
*Midwest Book Review, 2011*
""Art is in all of us, and the best seek to encourage it in others.
Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms is a chronicle of
author Lily Yeh's journeys, offered as an example for encourage art
all over the world. Focusing on her campaign in China, where she
got an abandoned factory converted to encourage local middle school
students, and helped them find artistic expression. Presented in
full color and plenty of example art works throughout, Awakening
Creativity is a choice pick for any educational collection
dedicated to promoting the arts.""
*Midwest Book Review 2012*
""As a case study, Awakening Creativity is both inspirational and
detailed... At every step from concept to completion, Yeh recruits
members of the school community, including students, as genuine
collaborators in the artistic process. The result is a series of
works that reverberate throughout the lives of their co-creators.
The art beautifies the campus, but its impact is far deeper: it
gives students the skills and the inspiration to be active
co-creators of their own lives.""
*Public Art Review*
""Yeh’s book should be used as a model in run-down schools
everywhere. It should be used in community development training and
in every school of design. Her work is the best of what art can do
to build the human spirit and make a community place. Thank you,
Lily, for your work and for documenting it so carefully in this
book.""
*Children, Youth and Environments*
""It is not often that a book can transport the reader to another
place and time, but Yeh has done this successfully. By including
color images on every page, the reader gets lost in the school and
community and makes readers feel part of the project from the
beginning. Yeh tells a captivating story.""
*Journal of Art for Life*
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