“Edward Clapp, the editor of 20Under40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, came to San Diego this past August to do a workshop on the arts for the San Diego Foundation. The talk, and now the book, is intended to shake things up a bit when thinking about the arts and arts education.… Schools that teach art, social trends and creativity should take a close look at the book for their classes.… Of particular interest to me is how I might incorporate one or more of these issues into the class I will be teaching at San Diego City College: Cultures of Latin America – which, by the way, also includes the border region.… In Riding through the Borderlands: Sustainable Art, Education and Social Justice, Marissa McClure discusses a university/community class and the relationships students form during the class.… McClure sees the project as crossing borders: gender, neighborhood and university/community borders. Questions asked of the students include how border consciousness might profit by engagement in a community-based project like BICAS and the related question of whether art and activism fit together.”

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