Lily YehCurriculum Vitae

2412 Waverly Street www.barefootartists.orgPhiladelphia, PA 19146 lily@barefootartists.org(215) 735-7968

EDUCATION

1963 – 1966 M.F.A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA1959 – 1963 B.A. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan1956 – 1963 Studied Classical Chinese painting in Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1966 – 1968 Instructor of Art History, West Chester College, West Chester, PA

1968 – 1998 Assistant Professor to tenured Professor, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Taught courses in art history, painting and drawing in the departments of Liberal Arts, Painting and Foundation.

1986 – 2004 Founder, Executive & Artistic Director, and Lead Artist, The Village of Arts and Humanities, North Philadelphia, PAYeh developed The Village of Arts and Humanities, which began as a simple park-building project involving neighborhood children, into a private, nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to neighborhood revitalization through the arts. By 2004, the Village had become a highly professional organization with an annual budget of $1.3 million and a dedicated staff of sixteen full-time and ten part-time employees including a four-person construction crew. During the last decade of her sojourn, the organization has yearly served over 10,000 low-income, primarily African-American youth and families, covering several neighborhoods within a 260 square block area in North Philadelphia.

The Village received many national awards including the Coming Up Taller Award from the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. in 2000 and the gold medal Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence from the Bruner Foundation in Cambridge, MA in 2001. In 2003, the Village received a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. In 2007, The Village received the prestigious Champion in Action from Citizens Bank for its building community through the arts effort since 1986.

2001 – 2004 Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford PrisonCollaborating with artists Gerry Givnish and Glenn Holsten, Yeh launched a three-year, multi-leveled interactive project that aimed to reveal the depth of humanity of long-term inmates in the State Correctional Institution at Graterford. The effort resulted in several city wide multi-media exhibitions, which were

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presented at Eastern State Penitentiary, the University of the Arts, the Painted Bride Art Center, and the Village of Arts and Humanities.

2004 – 2005 The Distinguished Artist in Residence at the University of Delaware Worked with University of Delaware faculty, students and community members in the area, Yeh led the design and development of a mosaic monument to commemorate the history of the Newark's African American community that one time lived in the University neighborhood.

2002 – present Founding Director, Barefoot Artists, Inc.Developed Barefoot Artists to bring the transformative power of art to impoverished communities in the world through participatory and multifaceted projects that foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development, and preserve and advance indigenous art and culture.

1993 – 2007 Kenya – The Community Transformation Project in Korogocho, Nairobi Supported by Lila Wallace Arts International Fellowship in 1993-94, Yeh took on a grassroots land transformation project in Korogocho, Kenya. Situated right next to a city dump, Korogocho, a community of 150,000, is one of the worst slums in Nairobi. Collaborating with her hosts, Paa Ya Paa Art Center and St. John’s Catholic Church, Yeh organized children and adults in the community to convert a bleak and dusty churchyard standing on the edge of the dumpsite into a brightly painted garden of huge angels and flowers. Through her effort, the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia collaborated with several artists from Korogocho and Nairobi in late 90s. In addition, the Village sponsored a two-year arts program for 200 street children in Korogocho. In 2004, collaborating with Life Learning group in the community, Yeh conducted workshops for hundreds of youth in their HIV/AIDS prevention program in Korogocho and its five adjacent communities. Returning in 2007 and collaborating with community social workers, she led art and mural painting workshops for street and addicted glue-sniffing children.

1998 Ivory Coast – The Niemassou Art Project Yeh and German Wilson, theater artist/director, worked together to conduct painting and performance workshops at Niemassou, a tiny rural village outside of Odienne in the Northwest corner of Ivory Coast.

1999 The Republic of Georgia - The Dzegvi Children’s Project, TblisiCollaborating with filmmaker Glenn Holsten and photographer Daniel Traub, Yeh traveled to Dzegvi, a little village containing twenty families and 110 street children, to conduct workshops with children in drawing, painting and photography. Children and several family groups took photos of each other, their activities and environment. At the end of the project, an exhibition of 15 big, life size banners of individual and group figures and hundreds of the photos were exhibited at Dzegvi. The project also produced a 12 minutes film describing Dzegvi community through the eyes of one particular family.

2000 Ecuador – Art projects in Salinas and AmbatoTraveled to Ecuador with artist Andres Chamorro to conduct workshops in visual and performing arts for youths and adults from many different communities in the

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highlands of Ecuador, including Quito, Salinas, and Ambato. In addition, they created a beautiful “Tree of Life” mural for the Ambato Special School for handicapped children.

2002 Ghana – Jamestown public square transformation project, AccraTraveling to Accra, Ghana, Yeh collaborated with educator Heidi Owu and community leaders to carry out a land transformation project in an impoverished neighborhood in Jamestown, located in the old section of the capital city Accra. The project engaged hundreds of children and adults in transforming a bleak courtyard into a public space full of patterns and colors.

1984 – 2005 China – Speaking tour, cultural exchange program, folk art research, workshopsInvited by the Chinese Cultural Ministry during the 80’s, Yeh conducted lecture tours in twelve cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Hongzhou, Shouzhou, Wuhan, and Uramchi. In 1984, she assisted the city of Philadelphia in establishing a multi-leveled cultural exchange program with its sister city Tianjin in China. In 1986, as a visiting artist, she presented a series of lectures in Lhasa, Tibet. In 1987, she participated in the renowned Yellow River Region Folk Art Expedition conducted by the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 2003, returned to China and conducted art workshops with the students in a remote village 2 hours north of Beijing. In 2004, returned to Beijing to work with senior citizens, and also led a mural painting project involving numerous youth and adults at Xin Chih Elementary School for children of migrant workers

2004 – 2005 Taiwan – The Chi Chong School Mosaic Mural Project, TaipeiInvited by The Culture Ministry of Taipei to participate in its Public Art Forum and Festival, Yeh was commissioned to create a mural for a five-story building located in Chi Chong School for handicapped and hearing-impaired children. Engaging art teachers and students in the design process, Yeh incorporated many of the images emerged from the art workshops in her design for the mural. The curator of the project mobilized the Chi Chong school community, a tile making factory and volunteers from all sectors of life to participate in the making of the mural. Over 400 people from different cities in Taiwan took part in the project, which was among the top nominees for a prestigious 2005 public art award in Taiwan.

2005 American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, Guest CuratorYeh introduced and curated the wall-sized papercut pieces by the late Chinese folk artist Ku Shu-Lan in the exhibition Race, Class, Gender ≠ Character at AVAM. Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Director and Founder of the Museum dedicated its 11th mega-exhibition to Lily Yeh because “her work so artfully and lovingly transcends race, class, nationality and gender.”

2004 – present The Rwanda Healing Project – the construction of the Rugerero Genocide Memorial and the healing and vitalization of the Rugerero Survivors Village, GisenyiLaunched the Rwanda Healing Project in 2004 under the auspices of Barefoot Artists, Inc. The project consists of two simultaneous and complimentary programs in Rubavu District, West Rwanda : 1) The Genocide Memorial brings beauty in its design and construction to honor the memory of the dead and

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provides a home for the bones of genocide victims. 2) The Rugerero Survivors Village Transformation honors the living by equipping surviving family members with economic resources and tools to heal, learn skills, and take actions to better their lives.

2007 Syria – The Children’s Art Project, DamascusWhile visiting Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria, Yeh collaborated with activist Noor Sheik Ogly and several Red Crescent members, and launched an art event with a simple exhibition and a workshop at Al Tijari Park in Damascus. Together they engaged two dozen of children and some of their parents in photography, drawing, painting and story-telling. Based on their drawings, children created a large and colorful painting together. Yeh turned the portrait photos of the children, their stories and art works into a colorful hand-made book, which was exhibited in Beijing, China in 2008 and then given to Project Learn School in Philadelphia as an exchange present.

2005 – Present The Bridge Over Barriers Project, Salt Lake City, UtahInvited by NeighborWorks of Salt lake City, Yeh led a major public art project, which aimed to transform the eyesore of a mammoth viaduct over a ten-lane interstate highway into a place of beauty and community pride. The process engaged the participation of 25 local artists and 1,500 neighborhood adults and children. Their joint effort has transformed the bleak sixteen 20-foot tall concrete structures into dazzling mosaic columns. Currently (2011) local artists are completing the murals over the 20,000 feet of cement-surfaced ramp on both sides of the highway. So far, it is the most ambitious public art in the state of Utah.

2005 – present China - Dandelion School Transformation Project, BeijingWorking with Zheng Hong, the Principal of Dandelion Middle School, Yeh launched the Dandelion Transformation Project in 2005. Situated on the outskirts of Beijing, Dandelion School provides educational opportunities for the children of migrant workers living at the bottom strata of the society. The project engaged the entire school community of 670 members - students, teachers, staff, and volunteers, in a co-creative process to transform the formerly sterile and bleak school environment into a place of beauty and joy and a place that inspires learning, creativity and exploration.

2010 Haiti – The Tree of Life Mural Project and workshops for children and adultsConducted workshops for children and handicapped adults in a refugee camp in the capital city of Port of Prince; conducted workshops for dozens of children in City Soleil, the largest slum on the edge of the capital, in making dream flags, drawings about themselves, and creating beautiful painted poles to transform their colorless environment. Working together, Yeh and residents in the camp for the disabled and elderly in City Soleil transformed a ruined wall into a lovely site decorated with the colorful Haitian Tree of Life.

2010 India – The Meditation/Healing Garden design, workshops for children, Ladakh

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Invited by the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC), Yeh conducted art workshops for children during her visit and designed a healing/peace garden at the foothills of the Himalaya for the Center.

2010 Taiwan – The Painted Labyrinth Project, Hua LianDesigned and led the installation of a 150-meter diameter labyrinth containing 200 pieces of 10 foot tall painted drift wood at the foothills of the Hua Don Mountains on the east coast of Taiwan. This installation is one of the eight environmental sculptures commissioned by the Masadi – Green Wonder, an international art project and exhibition sponsored by the Hualien Forestry Department. The project engaged the participation of 300 school children of the indigenous Ahmei Tribe and 200 senior citizens and volunteers.

2011 Taiwan – The Nan Gang Mural ProjectInvited by the Taiwan-based Architects & Associates to create a community-based art project that would help the urban revitalization of Nan Gang, Yeh engaged residents and school children in the area in the creation of a 30’ x 18’ canvas that celebrates Nan Gang and its community. Nan Gang is located on the outskirts of Taipei. The project was sponsored by the city of Taipei through its Urban Regeneration Program.

2009–present Rwanda – The Twa Transformation ProjectThe Twa people, Rwanda’s original pigmy forest inhabitants, are now in dire poverty and discriminated against. Supported by funders and working with volunteers and non-profit groups, including Rwanda Red Cross and Engineers Without Borders, Yeh launched the building of the Twa Art Center, where people can meet and work together. They used to fire their wares in tree leaves. Now with a walk in high temperature kiln, they are producing quality pottery, sculptures, and colorful beads which are fetching them much improved prices. Through Yeh’s effort, Barefoot Artists purchased farmland for the Twa villagers. Their labor now leads to harvests that sustain the villagers.

2011 Palestine – The Balata Refugee Camp Project ← Working with volunteer artists, leaders of the Balata Women Center,

students of the Balata Girls’ School, and local youth, Yeh created a 14’x 25’ mural, the Palestinian Tree of Peace. Inspired by the stories and images that emerged from her workshops, Yeh created a new kind of public art there that reflects the deep longing and pain of the displaced refugees and at the same time celebrates their courage, strength, and the hope for the future.←

AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, FELLOWSHIPS

2011 Honorary Doctor Degree, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA2011 YES! MAGAZINE honors LILY YEH—One of the “YES!

BREAKTHROUGH 15”2010 “Special Congressional Recognition” for work as a Philadelphia Community

Builder, presented by the United States Congress and the Philadelphia Chapter of The National Organization for Women (NOW)

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2009 “Medal of Accomplishment Award," from Society for Design & Process Science 2009 “The Academy Gold Medal of Honor,” The Academy of Transdisciplinary

Learning and Advanced Studies, for distinguished contribution to the advancement of Transdisciplinary Foundational ideas and activities

2009 Fleisher Art Memorial 2009 Founder’s Award, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Honorary Doctor Degree, Syracuse University, NY2007 Earth Movers Award, Natural Home Magazine2007 – 2008 Project leader in Bridge Over Barriers, a community-based art project that aims

to transform a bleak viaduct environment to beauty and celebration, sponsored by Salt Lake Housing Services.

2006 Design Award, Society for Environmental Design for Rwanda Project2006 Member, Fellowship of Reconciliation, May delegation to Iran on a peace mission2005 – 2006 Guest Curator for the gallery of Ku Shu-Lan’s paper artistry in the exhibition

Race, Class, Gender ≠ Character at American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. The Museum dedicated its 11th exhibition to Lily Yeh for her artistry, vision and humanity.

2005 Philadelphia Water Color Society Achievement in the Arts Award2004 Honorary Doctor Degree, Villanova University, Villanova, PA2004 The International Council of Fine Arts Deans Award for Arts Achievement and

Excellence 2004 Woman of Distinction Award from Philadelphia Business Journal2004 Excellence in Community Service Award from Safety, Awareness & Public Health

Education, Thomas Jefferson University 2003 Leadership for a Changing World Award, Ford Foundation, NY2003 Mentor, Arts Leadership for the Future Program2002 The Arts and Healing Network's Annual Award, San Francisco, CA2002 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA2001 Resident Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, November2001 Tikun Olum (Healing the World) Award, Congregation Kol Ami, Philadelphia, PA2001 Award of Recognition: The Office of Juvenile Justice Development Program, PA2001 – 2008 Art Commission, City of Philadelphia, PA2000 Pennsylvania Governor's Award by Tom Ridge for Arts and Leadership2000 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, The University of the Arts1999 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Massachusetts College of Art1999 The First Comcast Newsmaker Award 1998 ArtsLink Fellowship, Dzegvi village, Republic of Georgia1998 Annual Community Service Award, Pan Asian Association of Greater

Philadelphia1997 Home Town Hero Award and Profile from Children's Miracle Network

Champions, Salt Lake City, UT1996 The Annual Award from the Gardens for Humanity, Mesa, AZ1996 The Prudential Foundation's Leadership Award, Prudential Bank, Philadelphia1995 Human Rights Award for Arts and Culture, Philadelphia Commission on Human

Relations, Philadelphia, PA1995 Visiting Artist and Project Director of Korogocho Project in Kenya, Ford

Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya1994 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship 1993 Lila Wallace Arts International Fellowship for a three months residency in Kenya

and Ivory Coast1992 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Philadelphia

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PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

2011 Keynote Speaker, “Creativity, Transformation, and a Shared Prosperity,” celebrating Center for Transformative Action 40th anniversary, Johnson

Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Plenary Speaker, “Reshaping our Social Order through Creativity,” The Third Worldwide Conference hosted by Encuentro Mundial de Valores

(Worldwide Meeting on Human Values,) Monterrey, Mexico

Speaker, “The Rwanda Healing Project,” at East-Central Africa Arts & Health Forum in Kigali, Rwanda

Speaker, “To Reconnect the broken, to heal the wounded, and to make the invisible visible,” National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Speaker, “Awakening Creativity,” The Big Learning Event at University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Panel Speaker, “Participatory Public Art: Community Healing and Transformation,” Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA

Speaker, “Art and Healing,” at the Art and Healing, the intersection of practice conference, RISDI, Providence, RI

Speaker, “Art for Peace,” Metta Center for Nonviolence, Petaluma, CA

Speaker, “Compassionate Living Social Sculpture,” The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Talmage, CA

2010 Speaker, “Creating Sustainable Society,” at the annual international conference of The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (ATLAS) in Georgetown, TX

Plenary and Panel Speaker, “Art, Music & Culture for a Thriving Local Living Economy,” at the 8th Annual Business Alliance for Local Living Economy Conference (BALLE), Charleston, SC

Speaker, “Building Sustainable Community with Art, Economic Initiatives, and Technology,” at the annual international conference of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Dallas, TX

Keynote Speaker and workshop leader, “Building Community Through the Arts,” Cleveland Foundation’s Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH

Keynote Speaker, “Awakening Creativity – The Transformation of Dandelion School,” Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Speaker and workshop leader, “Learning Through Creating,” elementary and high school students at Mahabodhi International Meditation Center, Ladakh, India

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Keynote Speaker and workshop leader, “Art and Social Change,” Goddard College, Port Townsend, WA

A national livability expert, Livability Challenge forum/working session in Indianapolis, ID, launched by CEOs for Cities in Chicago

Artist and workshop leader, “Haitian Tree of Life” mural and thirty painted trees - a collaboration with earth quake refugees in City Soleil, Port of Prince, Haiti

2009 Plenary Speaker, The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope Through Art and Creative Action,” Bioneers conference, San Rafael, CA

Panel Speaker, “Bridging arts and activism,” New Voices national Fellowship Retreat, Santa Fe, NM

Keynote Speaker, “Healing and Community Building Through Creative Action,” 2009 Mountain West Conference on the Arts sponsored by Utah Arts Council, Utah

Workshop Leader, “Creating the Mural: Art as a Catalyst for Community Revitalization,” at Mountain West Conference on the Arts

Speaker, “The Power of Art in Building Harmonious Society,” Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, China

Keynote Speaker, “The Power of Art in Healing and Community Building,” at Mien Yang, Sichuan (in the 2008 earth quake region), Regional Conference for Art Teachers

Speaker, “The transformative Power of Art in Healing and Community Building,” University of Colorado in Boulder, CO

2008 Keynote Speaker, “Building Community through Art, Technology and Economic Initiatives,” the 11th SDPS Transdisciplinary Conference on Integrated Systems, Design, and Process Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Speaker, “The Rwanda Healing Project,” International conference “Lest we Forget: Conference on Rwandan Genocide at York University,” Toronto

Keynote Speaker, “Enlivening Neighborhoods through Arts,” at “Art at the Hub, A symposium on making art locally” sponsored by Toronto Arts Council Foundation, Toronoto

Keynote Speaker, “Art and Community Health,” at the 17th national conference “Embracing our Past, Shaping our Future: 21st Century Innovations,” sponsored by the Society for the Arts in healthcare, Temple University, Philadelphia

Keynote Speaker, “Building Family & Community through Art,” BRIDGES, A Museum/Community Partnership Conference, Philadelphia

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Speaker, “Art and Social Activism,” Mount Aloysius College, PA

Speaker, “Transformation through Art,” Compton Foundation Family Advisory Board Retreat, Commonweal, CA

Speaker, “Reflections of a Barefoot Artist: Bringing healing, Self-Empowerment, and Social Change thought the Arts,” at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Talmage, CA

Speaker, “Centering and Deep Rooting through the arts,” Dandelion School Symposium, Beijing

2007 Speaker, “Creativity, Campus life and Community,” Towson University, MD

Keynote Speaker, “From Personal Transformation to Shared Prosperity,” 25th Anniversary Conference of ODDA’s Downtown Solutions, Astoria, OR

Keynote Speaker, “The Transformative Power of Art,” at the Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts conference in Chicago sponsored by Shanti Foundatioin for peace, Chicago, IL

Speaker, “The Rwanda Healing Project,” an exhibition and symposium on Rwandan genocide and healing, Louisville, KY

Keynote Speaker, “Creative Community Building,” Wachovia annual celebration, Philadelphia

2006 Speaker, “Beauty, Ethics, & Community Building,” The 2006 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics, The Honors College at the University of Maine, Orono, ME

Keynote Speaker, “Art and Social Activism,” Texas Commission on the Arts annual conference, Austin, TX

Keynote Speaker, “Creating Resources Through Art,” Essentials of a Creative Economy Workshop II, Reconnecting People Through Media and Urban Resources, Springfield, OH

Keynote Speaker, “Building Harmonious Community through Art,” The Center for Human Services Conference, Thousand Oaks, CA

Keynote Speaker, “Healing and Reconnecting through Art,” Abuse Across the Lifespan annual conference, sponsored by Ventura County Partnership for Safe Families & Communities, Ventura, CA

Speaker, “The Rwanda Healing Project,” Jackson Hole, WY

Speaker, “Creating Resources through Innovation and Action,” Teng Chong Vocational High School, Teng Chong, Yunnan, China

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Speaker, “How the Arts Change and Sustain Communities,” Women Scholars Group Speaker Series, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

2005 Speaker, “A Sense of Place,” Design’s Diaspora, A landscape architecture symposium, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Davis, CA

Keynote Speaker, “Learning Through Creating,” Through the Looking Glass, Finding the Gold Within, A fine arts networking conference presented by the Utah State Office of Education in partnership with the Utah Arts Council, Layton, Utah

Speaker, “The Transformative Power of Art,” Qing Hua University, Beijing, China

Speaker in Taipei on the Move II Conference, April, Taiwan

Speaker, David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Speaker, Southern Utah University, Cedar, UT

Keynote Speaker, “Community Activism Through Arts Education,” Partners for Arts Education annual conference, Syracuse, NY

Speaker, “Art+Local Economic Development,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2004 Featured Speaker, “Culture, Arts and healing,” for Fellows of Wilde Flowers Foundation and University of New Mexico community members, Albuquerque, NM

Led 20 students in creating a “Living Mural” in the CFA Museum Corridor as a part of: DownPour UpRoar,” a Community Learning and Public Service Program of University of New Mexico.

Featured Speaker, ”Art and Activism,” a part of lecture series in Community, Culture & Environment program sponsored by Northern Arizona University, flagstaff, AZ

A member, The Community Arts Network Gathering, a think-tank session, sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation, Arden, NC

Keynote speaker, “Creativity and Community Building,” Society for Environmental Graphic Design Annual conference, Philadelphia

Featured Speaker, “Poverty, Micro credits and Development,” International Conference on in Barcelona, Spain

Conducting teacher training for Life Learning Program for HIV/AIDS prevention for youth; conducting workshops for six community groups impacting thousands of people, Korogocho (Nairobi), Kenya

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Featured Speaker and panel member, “Urban Revitalization through Creative Actions and Art,” in the first International conference “CENTROS Y CIUDADES COMPETITIVAS, APPRENDIENDO DE CIUDADES” (Competitive Cities and Downtowns: Learning from cities), at Armenia and Medellin, Columbia

Keynote Speaker, “Art as Social Activism,” University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Keynote speaker, Connecticut Art Education Associations’ Annual Conference, “Transforming the World Through Art.”

Featured Speaker, ‘The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia,” the International Council of Fine Arts Deans Annual Conference “Let Freedom ring: the Responsibility of the Arts in a Democratic Society,” Philadelphia

Keynote Speaker, “Learning Through the Arts,” Connecticut Art Education Association Annual Conference, Hartford, CT

Keynote speaker, “Public Art, Community and Urban Spaces” at “Cities on the Move” conference in Taipei, sponsored by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government

Presentation and discussion, Taipei City Department of Urban Development

Presentation and discussion, Taiwan University Research Center of Urban and Rural Development

Presentation & structuring a design project, Chi Chong Special School for deaf youth, Taipei, Taiwan

Presentation & discussion, “The Conscience and Responsibility of the Educated,” Qing Hua University, Beijing

Presentation & discussion, “Art, Creativity and Activism in Social Change,” NGOs and volunteers, Beijing

2003 Keynote Speaker, “The Power of Art in Transforming People and Community,” Arts & Humanities In-Service workshops for Elementary, Middle and High Schools teachers in the arts, sponsored by Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, Pittsburgh,

Keynote Speaker, “The Humanities in the City A Public Dialogue,” a part of the 2002-2003 Cultural Crossings lecture series, at Cleveland State University

Keynote Speaker, “Creative Teaching Strategies at the Village of Arts and Humanities,” at the Teacher Forum, Cleveland

Teaching, “Creativity and Social Change” in the Master of Liberal Arts Program in Creation Spirituality, Naropa University Oakland Campus, CA

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Teaching, “The Village of Arts and Humanities: Personal and Community Transformation,” Doctor of Ministry/Certificate Program, University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland, CA

A brief presentation at a Techno Cosmic Mass entitled, "Taoism: Creation Centered Tradition," Oakland, CA

Keynote Speaker, “the Common Ground,” the annual arts in education conference sponsored by The New York State Alliance for Arts Education, Saratoga Springs, New York

Keynote Speaker, “Bringing Community Alive, from Despair to Dreams,” Hope in Action conference Together We Have the Power to Change Our World, the first national conference sponsored by Hope Magazine at Babson College, Boston (Wellesley), MA

Keynote Speaker and workshops, “Arts, Creativity and Community Building,” Summer Arts Education Institute, Young Audiences of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

Keynote Speaker, “Creativity and Learning Through the Arts at the Village of Arts and Humanities,” Summer Seminar Designing Effective Professional Development at Sarah Lawrence College at Bronxville, NY, sponsored by Empire State Partnerships - High Student Achievement In and Through the Arts

Keynote Speaker, “Building community through Greening and Art,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national conference Community Involvement, Philadelphia

Keynote Speaker, symposium “Merging Artistic and Civic Vision: Law, the Arts and Urban Planning,” Cleveland State University, Ohio

Presentation and workshop, Fiber Department, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Keynote Speaker, “Building Community Through Art,” Mount Aloysius College, PA

2002 Keynote Speaker, “Art Works,” Virginia Conference, Richmond, VA

Keynote Speaker, “Learning Through the Arts,” Youth Arts Forum II, Dayton, OH

Keynote Speaker, “Painting the Picture, Bridging Generations,” the Women’s Caucus For Art 30th Annual National Conference, Philadelphia

Panel Chair & Presenter, “The Quest for Community Renewal and the Transcending Power of Art,” College Art Association’s 90th Annual Conference, Philadelphia

Panel Presenter at the symposium “Community Design Now or Never” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston

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Speaker, “Women Sustaining the American Spirit,” National women’s History Month, Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Philadelphia

Keynote Speaker and artist of conference Workshop, “The Transformative Power of Art,” 4th annual Arts and Literacy Conference at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Speaker, Unimaginable Isolation, Stories from Graterford Prison, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia

Speaker, “Building Community: Parks as Art,” lecture series on Greening of Boston: Parks as Community Builders, hosted by Boston GreenSpace Alliance

Speaker, “Community Building Through Art,” College of Atlantic, Bar Harbor, MA Keynote Speaker, “The Transformative Power of Art,” The Society of North American Goldsmith (SNAG), hosted by the Colorado Metalsmithing Association (COMA), Denver, CO

Keynote Speaker, “A Personal Journey Made Public,” the Philadelphia Sculptors/Tri-State Sculptors conference crossing the Line, at Moore College of Art and the University of the Arts

Keynote Speaker, “Smart Growth through art and Greening,” Grantmakers in the Arts National Conference, Charlotte, NC

Panel presenter, Hope & Rehabilitation: Lessons from Philadelphia Winners of the Rudy Bruner Award Plenary at Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Philadelphia

Presenter & Participant, “Transcending Ideology and Technology for a Trusting and Inclusive Society,” 1st workshop in DRIVERS OF THE 21st CENTURY workshop Series, at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, April 25-26; sponsors/ hosts - PGK Foundation, IC2 Institute, Getty Center, and Zero Time Labs

Featured Speaker, “Art, Music, and Culture Family Centered Community Building Consortium,” hosted by Professor Al Gore, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University, TN

2001 Featured Speaker, “Employing Art as a Catalyst for Social and Economic Rebirth from North Philadelphia to Kenya and Beyond,” Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

Featured Speaker, “Repossessing Urban Spaces,” Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Lecturer, “Together We Build,” The CLA Office of Experiential Learning at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Featured Speaker, “The Art of Cultural Transformation ArtLinks 2001: Cultural Crossroads,” Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, AK

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Keynote Speaker, “Urban Renewal Through Art,” Urban Open Space Foundation Summit, Madison, WI

Featured Speaker, “Challenge America, Creative Communities,” National Council on the Arts, 143rd Meeting, Washington D.C.

Keynote Speaker, “Transforming Urban Spaces through Park Building,” Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL

Featured Speaker, “Urban Transformation Through Art,” Harper Forum, Binghamton, NY

Featured Speaker, “Parks as Community Places,” Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest, Urban Parks Institute, Ashland, OR

Featured Speaker, “Celebrating Strengths, Challenging Disparities: Reweaving the Healthy Community,” The Eighth Annual Ounce of Prevention Conference, Boston, MA

Keynote Speaker, “Community Building Through the Arts,” The Community Built Association’s Conference: Building Bridges, Tempe, AZ

Speaker, “Remembering the Dream: Building Community,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Germantown Jewish Centre, Philadelphia, PA

2000 Commencement Speaker at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA.

Featured Speaker, “Learning from Cities Conference,” Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Speaker, “Re-possessing Urban Spaces: Emergent Paradigms - a forum to explore the relationships between community, art, and architecture,” University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture.

1998 Featured Speaker, “The Place of the Arts in the City,” sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Boston Center for the Arts.

Featured Speaker, “Creative Urban Renewal: Transformation Through the Arts,” sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects Social Impact Commission at Boston Build Conference

1995 Project Director, "Connecting Through Walls," a newsletter published by the Village Press

1994 Speaker, “Building Community Through Art,” the Third International Conference on Systems Integration, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Artist and Director of Korogocho Project and Chief Advisor of Paa Ya Paa Arts Center, Nairobi, Kenya

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1982-89 Coordinator of Arts Exchange between Tianjin, China and Philadelphia, PA.

EXHIBITIONS

2011 “The Rwanda Healing Project,” as a part of Creative Time’s multifaceted exhibition Living as For: the art of social engagement, New York, NY

2010 “Dandelion School Transformation Project,” Today’s Art Museum in Beijing, containing interactive sculptures, large-scale paintings by students and large documentary photos of work with the whole school community in this five year project on the outskirts of Beijing.

2009 “Deep Rooting & Looking at the World,” works by Dandelion students and teachers created in Yeh’s workshop sessions, Dandelion School, Beijing

2008 “Let’s Celebrate Life with Colors, Music and Dance,” documentary photos of work in Africa and North Philadelphia, and original art works by youth from Korogocho Kenya, Bad Dog Discovers America in Salt Lake City, Project Learn School, and other books by artists at Dandelion School, Beijing.

2007 “Substance: Diverse Practices from the Periphery,” Photos of Rwanda by Lily Yeh, Chris Landy, Chris Noble at Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO

2006 “Texturing Women’s lives: Voices from the silent Generation,” portraits by Deborah Caiola and interviews by Sharon Ravitch, at Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia

2005 “Exploring Tranquility, Dustless World amidst Abandoned Land,” photo documentary exhibition at Ching Hua University Art Center, Hsing Zhu, Taiwan

2003 Photo documentary exhibition at Paa Ya Paa Art Center, Nairobi, Kenya

2002 “Local Heroes, Changing America,” an exhibition of original photographs and recorded voices of Indivisible at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

2002 “Children’s Art Education and Community Development, Lily Yeh’s work in Philadelphia,” a photo documentary in Unaffected Childhood: Interactive Art Education for Children Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

2001 “Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford Prison,” Eastern State Penitentiary, June-November

2001 “Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford Prison,” The Village Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, October 1-October 31

2001 “Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford Prison,” The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Sept15-October 15

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2001 “Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford Prison,” The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 7-20

2000 “Village of Arts and Humanities retrospective,” Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

1998 “New Acquisitions,” the Philadelphia Museum of Art East Asia section, (One piece “Landcape” is in the museum’s collection.)

1996 “Photo documentary exhibitions” at the University of the Arts, the Painted Bride Art Center, and the Village of Arts and Humanities, part of the Kujenga Pamoja Festival, the 10th anniversary celebration of the Village

1995 "Ancestors," (group show), Asian American Arts Center, NY

1994 “Korogocho Angels, a photo documentary of Lily Yeh’s Korogocho project in Nairobi, Kenya with artwork by contemporary East African artists,”

1994 "A Mural of Contemporary Angels," part of "Interweave" exhibition, the Jamaica Art Center, NY

1992 “Photo documentary exhibition of Village projects & programs,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1989 “Retrospective exhibition,” Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Tianjin Fine Arts College, Tianjin, China

1984 "The Sea," environmental installation, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1983 “The Garden of Easter,” environmental installation, Marian Locks Gallery East, Philadelphia

PERFORMANCES & PUBLIC EVENTS (partial listing)

2007 Ribbon cutting and dedication speech at the Rugerero Genocide Memorial Dedication Ceremony, Rugerero, Rwanda

2001 Director of Unimaginable Isolation: Stories from Graterford Prison, Public Forum, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 25.

1996 Director of Kujenga Pamoja Festival, 10th anniversary celebration of the Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia (including ceremonial procession, theater performances, and the Rites of Passage for teens at the Village, the Painted Bride Art Center)

1995 Artist and Director of 2nd Korogocho Project "Kujenga Pamoja Festival" (Together, We Build in Swahili), Nairobi, Kenya (sponsored by Ford Foundation)

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1994 Project Director of Korogocho Dedication Ceremony, Nairobi, Kenya.

1993 Artistic director, playwright, producer of Children's Dreams and Lives, a major theater production by the Village of Arts and Humanities.

1986- 2003 Producer of art and annual festivals at The Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA.

1983 Choreographer and performer, The Red Room, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.

PUBLICATIONS by LILY YEH

2011 “Awakening Creativity, Dandelion School Blossoms,” published by New Village Press in Oakland, CA. The 208-page book with 275 color photographs and stories illustrates the power of art in transforming the physical environment as well as the hearts and minds of the participants.

2011 “Painting Hope in the World,” Dream of a Nation, (A Vision for a Better America), edited by Tyson Miller, designed by Kelly Spitzner

2011 “Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration,” YES! Online Magazine, Nov.

2010 “How Art Can Heal Broken Places,” Moonrise: The Power Of Women Leading From The Heart, edited by Nina Simon

2007 “My Story,” Shout Out, Women of Color Respond to Violence, edited by Maria Ochoa & Barbara K. Ige

2006 “Barefoot Artists: Healing the World, One Artist at a Time,” Designer/builder, A Journal of the Human Environment, Nov./Dec.

2005 “Community Building Through Art and Youth Participation,” Humanistic Educational Journal, 11, Taiwan

2005 “Introduction,” Shared Prosperity, a planning document for the development of 100 blocks in inner city North Philadelphia

2004 “My Story,” Taipei on the Move, Spice up the City with Art, conference catalogue

2004 “A Luminous Place,” The Other Side, Strength for Journey, July/August

2003 Project director & designer, North Philadelphia Green Corridor Initiative, Envisioning a vital and prosperous future for Germantown Avenue through innovative greening and art, the Village press

2002 “Cultivating Smart Growth through Art and Greening,” a transcript from a keynote address at Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Reader, Ideas and Information on Arts and Culture

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2001 “Introduction,” Unimaginable Isolation: Stories From Graterford Prison, the Village Press

1998 “A Personal Journey made Public,” Designer Builder, December

1998 Project director & co-author, Learning Through Creating, village-Hardranft Education Pilot Project, the Village Press

1995 “Introduction,” Connecting through Walls, a newsletter created by artists and prison inmates to break down the walls of myth, misperception and silence, the Village Press

1992 Children’s Dreams and Lives, script for a full theater production (Performed twice in Philadelphia)

PUBLICATIONS about LILY YEH

2011 Arlene Goldbard, “Art as Spiritual Practice,” Public Art Review, spirituality and religion issue, spring/summer

2011 Natalie Pompilio, “Beauty Brings Healing in Broken Places,” YES! Magazine, November

2011 Andrea K. Hammer, “Awakening Creativity and Communities”, Ode Magazine, Oct./Nov.

2011 David Kupfer, “Delivering the Vision,” Border Crossing, the third issue of the Online Magazine of WEAD (Women Environmental Artists Directory), October

2011 Bill Chaisson, “Transformative Art, Lily Yeh Builds Community Through Creativity,” Ithaca Times, Oct. 19 – 25

2011 Paul Bennetch, “Art has the power to mend broken communities, says renowned artist,” Cornell Chronicle online, Oct.

2011 Corrie R. Colvin Williams, a review of Lily Yeh’s Awakening Creativity, Dandelion School Blossoms, The Children, Youth and Environments Journal, University of Colorado, Fall issue

2011 Josiane Lai (賴麗惠), “The Rainmaker Magician, Lily Yeh’s Social Sculpture & Action Art,” Artist Magazine, Taiwan, October

2011 Stephan Salisbury, “Raising a Village,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 22011 Yun Pu Chen (陳運璞), “Lily Yeh Painting Hope for the Poor,” San Francisco

World Journal (世界日報), Nov. 72010 Jay Walljasper, “All That We Share, a field guide to the commons,” The New

Press2010 William Murthe, 100 Words: Two Hundred Visionaries Share Their Hope for the

Future2009 “Lily Yeh, Rwanda Healing Project, at Bioneers,” Saya Anak Gangsa Malaysia,

one people one nation 2008 Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Pantheon2008 Terry Tempest Williams, “Healing Rwanda, Twibuke: beauty and healing amid

the shards of Rwanda,” Orion Magazine, September/October 2008 John Timpane, “Influences what shapes the minds that make the news,” The

Philadelphia Inquirer, March 9

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2008 Editorial staff, “Luminous World, the Transformative Sublime of Artist Lily Yeh,” Vajra Bodhi Sea, June

2008 Julie Checkoway, “Community hopes art will renew blighted neighborhood.” The Salt Lake Tribune, March 2007 Jennifer Moroz, “How do you find the will to live?” A Rwandan community

devastated by genocide gets a boost from a Phila. Art and development project. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 29

2007 Jocelyn E. Zanzot, “From starlight to pixels; the luminous world of artist Lily Yeh,” South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH, ISSN 0258-3542, volume 22, number 3

2006 Harry Wiland & Dale Bell, “Edens, Lost & Found, How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities,” Chelsea Green

2006 Carol Pobanz, “The Rwanda Healing Project,” World & I, Innovative Approaches to Peace, Jan. – Feb.

2006 Mary T. Hufford & Rosina S. Miller, “Piecing Together the Fragments, Leadership for Social Change in North Central Philadelphia 2004-2005,” A Leadership for a Changing World Collaborative Ethnography, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

2006 Lynne Elizabeth and Suzanne Young, editors, “Works of Heart, Building Village through the Arts,” New Village Press

2006 Virginia K. Nalencz, “The Owl and the Phoenix,” Temple Review, Temple University, Spring

2005 Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, “Dedication to Lily Yeh,” Race, Class Gender ≠ Character , the American Visionary Art Museum’s 11th original mega-exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2004 Abby Asher,” From Abandoned to Beautiful,” YES Magazine2005 Mary 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

2005 Keith Knight & Mat Schwarzman, edited by William Cleveland, “Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts,” New Village Press

2004 Bill Moskin & Jill Jackson, “Warrior Angel, the Work of Lily Yeh,” Internet2004 Hu Pei, “ Wen Ro di Li Lian (The Power of Tenderness,” Art Weekly, China

Cultural Newspaper2004 Shin, “Fei Shu Shan Shen Zhen di Tong Fan Jei Xui (Eastern Philosophy Growing

from Trash Piles),” VIP SINA magazine, Beijing2004 Rosina 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

2001 Cristy West, “Lily Yeh, Filling the niches of North Philadelphia with creativity and hope,” Orion magazine

2002 Margaretta wa Gacheru, “Children at center of Art,” Daily Nation-Weekend Magazine Supplement, Friday July 11, Nairobi

2003 Sharon Abercrombie, “Inner City, Inner Light,” Earth Light, Issue 492003 Barbara Dunn, “Sowing Seeds of Hope in Philadelphia Gardens,” Pennsylvania

magazine, Nov/Dec2003 Liu 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), Oct. 13

2003 Lui Lin, “Lily Yeh’s Village receives Governor’s Award in environmental Excellence,” (translated title), Shi Jie Ri Bao (World Journal), Sept. 18

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2002 Al and Tipper Gore, “Community,” Joined At the Heart, the Transformation of the American Family

2002 Frank Rubino, “Pain and Possibility,” Hope Magazine2002 Chin Lian, “He Ren Cue li di Shan Sui Yi Shu Chia (Landscape Artist in an

African American Neighborhood),” Ming Pao Monthly, Hong Kong2002 Mat Schwarzman, “Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community,”

Louisiana2002 Yang 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

2001 Richard Wener, Emily Axelrod & others, “Placemaking for Change: 2001 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence,” Bruner Foundation publication

2001 Monica Yant-Kinney, “Risk and Renewal: Growing a Leafy Antidote to Decay,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov.29

2001 Gloria Blakely, “One Million Dollars Available in Grants from Philadelphia Commerce Department,” Philadelphia Sunday Sun, Nov. 25

2001 “76 Smartest Philadelphians,” Philadelphia Magazine, November2001 Stephan Salisbury “Art of Survival,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept.122001 Lise Funderburg, “The F Word: Lily Yeh,” The Oprah Magazine, September2001 Susan Hagen, “Solitary Assignment,” Philadelphia City Paper, September 62001 Debra Auspitz, “Expanding Isolation,” Philadelphia City Paper, September 62001 Scott Edwards, “A Chance To Be Heard,” Bucks, Mercer, and Beyond:

Happenings, InterCounty Newspaper August 16.2001 Alex Krieger, “Community Builders,” Architecture, June.2001 “Arresting Art,” Philadelphia Weekly, May 302001 Stephan Salisbury, “Troupe Movements,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24.2001 “What happened to Ö?” Reader’s Digest, February.2001 Burt E. Schuman, “Arts Can Be Religious,” Altoona Mirror, January14.2001 Liu 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 62001 Yang Xien Ren, “Lily Yeh’s art reaching new climax,” (translated title), Mei Nan

Zou Kan (Southern America Weekly), Houston, June 242000 Photographs 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.

2000 Phil 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

2000 Chir 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

2000 Liu Lin, “Philadelphia’s Eagles professional football team assists Lily Yeh’s Village with funds,” (translated title), Shi Jie Ri bao (World Journal), June 10

1999 Andrea Zemel, “Fine Arts 349, Community, Collaborative, and Public Art,“ Art Journal

1999 Chai Mei-Ching, “Li Siang Kuo (The Ideal World),” Yi Shu Shi Jie (Art World) magazine, Beijing, China

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1999 Eils Lotozo, “It Takes a Village, Artist and documentarian Lily Yeh brings a cross-cultural portrait of Kenya to life in An Angel in the Village,” Philadelphia City Paper, May 13

1999 Jonathan Storm, “Breaking new ground with a Phila. Story, Channel 35’s first national PBS program tells of community artist Lily Yeh,” the Philadelphia Inquirer, may 12

1999 Tang Jia Li, “Lily Yeh awarded Honorary Doctor Degree by (Massachusetts) Art College,” Boston News, World Journal, May 27

1999 Peter Michelmore, translated by Mao Wa Jia, “Lily Yeh, Chinese Ameircan Artist changing inner city Philadelphia,” The Big World of Women, Kumming, China

1998 Elizabeth Murray, “Replenishing Soil and Souls,” Unity Magazine, September1998 Peter Michelmore, “Lily Yeh’s Magic Village,” Readers Digest, April1998 Peter Michelmore, “Yeh Lei Lei di Shi Wai Tau yuan (Lily Yeh’s Magic Village),”

Du Jei Wen Jai (Readers’ Digest, Chinese version), September1998 Liu Lin, “Yeh Lei Lei di Wu Chen Shi Jie (The Dustless World of Lily Yeh),” Shi

Jie Zhou Kan (Weekly Magazine of World Journal), July 191998 The Boston Globe, Dialogues, “Pursuing the art of inclusion for the public good,”

The Boston Sunday Globe, Dec. 201998 James Maxton, “Powerful Dreams,” Subject, news from the Greater Philadelpihia

Cultural Alliance 1998 Yao Zhung Hwa, “Hwa Tan Qi Nu Tze, Yeh Lei Lei ho ta di Yi ei Chung (Lily Yeh

and her Village),” Chung Chen Wan Bao, newspaper in Kumming, China, Oct. 31997 Dan Geringer, “Transformed by the village,” Philadelphia Daily News, Nov. 201997 Cultivating Sacred Space, Gardening for the Soul, by Elizabeth Murray1997 Leslie Dierks, Four photos in “The Classic Direct Method,” Making Mosaics,

Designs, Techniques & Projects 1997 “The Village of Arts and Humanities, North Philadelphia,” Core News,

CoreStates, Nov. 181997 Kathy Boccella, “A Village of art and effort renovates N. Phila. Community,” The

Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 91997 Jane Hwang, photos, “Where Work is play,” the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 141996 “Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa,” Catalogue, organized by the White

Chapel Gallery, London in conjunction with Guggenheim Museum1996 “From North Philadelphia to Nairobi: Lily Yeh shares vision of hope,” Art Matters,

March1996 Diana Myers–Bennett Roberts, “The Transformative Power of Art,” Art Matters

(Village celebrating its tenth anniversary)1996 Judith West, “Village of Arts and Humanities 10th Anniversary Celebration,”

Seven Arts, October1996 Leonard W. Boasberg, “The Artist & the Village,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, (10th

anniversary celebration)1996 “Clean and Green,” Neighborhood Action Bureau, Community Messenger1995 di Enrico Costa, “’Miracolo’ al Villaggio,” America Oggi 1995 Stefania Chinazari, “Gli angeli di Lily una speranaza per I diseredati,” L’Unita

maggio, Demenica1995 “Il Villaggio delle Arti e delle Materie Umanistiche,” Il Pasquino, Marzo1995 Leonard W. Boasberg, “Work of renewal,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug.291995 “Artists craft a work of urban renewal,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 301995 Penelope McPhee, “Who Should Fund the Arts?” Grantmakers in the Arts

Newsletter, Autumn1994 Sphere, “Angels in Philadelphia,” Sphere magazine, NY

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1994 Tom Csaszar, “LilyYeh, The Village of Arts and Humanities,” The New Art Examiner

1994 Gil Ott, “Sharing the Future, the Arts and Community Development,” High Performance, Winter

1994 Margarretta wa Gacheru, “Touch of Colour and angelic beauty for Korogocho,” Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, Jan. 21

1994 Margarretta wa Gacheru, “A village of arts and humanities,” Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, Mar. 11

1994 Dan Geringer, “Small angel creates miracles with art,” The Philadelphia Daily News, July 25

1994 Dan Geringer, “Jo Jo returns to N. Phila. Village park,” The Philadelphia Daily News, Dec. 19

1994 Denise Flaim, “On the Wings of Angels, From Kenya to Quees, exhibit unites angelic images,” NY Newsday, Sept. 6

1994 Deni Kasrel, “Lily Yeh: Art center director helps heal community,” Art Matters, Jan.

1994 Cheryl Pallant, “When Community Creates Art and Art Creates Community,” ArtsInk, a publication of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, spring/summer

1994 Dan Geringer, “’Angel’ sculpts life in desolate areas,” Philadelphia Daily News, Oct. 6

1994 Carol Evans, “Guardian Angel, a transcendent moment from the ART-21 Conference,” Stagebill

1994 Christopher, L. Berglund, “Dreamscape Delights,” Community Messenger, July1993 Judith E. Stein, “A Village with Heart,” Metropolitan Home, July1993 Dan Geringer, “Hope Flowering in Miss Lily’s village,” The Philadelphia Daily

News, Mar. 11993 “Play about North Philadelphia has final performance July 2, Children’s Dreams

and Lives,” The Philadelphia Tribune, June 291993 “Meditation Park,” IFTA Artist Awards newsletter, the International Friends of

Transformative Art1992 Dan Geringer, “Kids glow in light from a special angel,” Philadelphia Daily News,

Dec. 71992 East and West: An Experiment in Multicultualism, in Sex, Art, and American

Culture, by Camille Paglia 1992 Penny Balkin Bach, “Ile-Ife Park, The Village of Arts and Humanities,” Public Art in

Philadelphia1992 Miriam Seidel, “Lily Yeh, It Pulls It Apart,” High Performance, spring1992 Nora FitzGerald, “Lily Yeh’s Miracle Mosaic,” Applause magazine, June1992 Jonathan Storm, “Rising from the debris is community spirit,” The Philadelphia

Inquirer, June 31992 “The Village of Arts and Humanities, An oasis in a bleak, blighted neighborhood,”

Knight Foundation Newsletter, October1992 Tom Csaszar, “The Sculptor as Social Agent,” Fourteenth International Sculpture

Conference, Philadelphia, New Art Examiner1992 “Artist Lily Yeh to discuss neighborhood arts village,” Lincoln Journal-Star,

Lincoln, Nebraska, June 281992 Thomas Hine, “A commitment to community: Mural sets the tone in N. Phila.,”

The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 171992 Alejandro Lopez, “The Return of the Horno,” The Sun, March1991 Janet A. Kaplan, “The City That Is Not New York: A Cultural Overview of

Philadelphia,” Artists Choose Artists, ICA

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1991 Terence Samuel, “And All the players merely people,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 19

1991 Dan Geringer, “An area’s humanity is captured on stage,” The Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 16

1991 Anupma Logani, “The Village, a cradle of love in a city of pain,” PhiladelphiaPEOPLE, fall/winter

1991 Dan Geringer, “In Lily Yeh’s garden, ‘Big Man’ was reborn,” Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 11

1991 “A Festival strikes home, ‘Mythos’ comes to North Philadelphia,” Editorials, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 24

1990 The University of the Arts, “Ile-Ife Community Park Fence Post,” Philadelphia Images

1990 Gwen Florio, ”Artist’s vision changes neighborhood,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 21

1990 Darryl Lynette Figueroa, “An Oasis in North Phila., Art Professor & Neighbors Turn Blight into Garden Spot,” Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 31

1988 Valeria M. Russ, “Little Hands Build A Park in N. Phila.,” Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 29

1985 Yang Xien Ren, “Yeh Lei Lei di Yi Shu Jieu Qou (Lily Yeh’s Search in Art),” Art magazine, April, Beijing, China

1985 Fu Yueng, “Lily Yeh, the articulator of contemporary art,” Xinjiang Art, Urumqi, Xinjian, China, Issue 6

MEDIA

2011 The Barefoot Artist, a documentary film to be released in June of 2012. Directed by two award-winning filmmakers Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub, the

film features Yeh’s internal personal journey and its relationship to her global ventures in mending and healing broken communities.

2011 “Healing Arts, Healing Hearts: Lily Yeh in China,” interview with Mark Summer, a feature-length podcast on the radio program A World of Possibilities.

2011 “Inspiration and Community Building,” interview with Michael Stone, producer / Broadcaster of Conversations on KVMR, a show which interviews leading

edge thinkers in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Spiritual Fulfillment and Social Justice.2011 “Awakening Creativity,” interview with Caroline Casey in The Visionary Activist

Show, KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA2011 “The Transformative Art of lily Yeh,” interview with Dave Viezer on All Things

Equal, produced by Gary Stewart, WHCU/Cayuga Radio Group, Ithaca, NY2010 “Where Angels Fear To Tread, Making Art That Heals the Broken Places,”

interview with Frank Rogozienski, Bioneers. A piece of the 13-part series of half-hour interviews of “bioneers” that received the Communicator Award of Distinction for audio programming as well as the Silver Medal at the New York festival radio awards.2009 “Peace Talk Interview with Lily Yeh,” Peace Talk Radios, KUNM 89.9FM

Alberquerque and other public radio stations across the country

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2009 “Interview with Lily Yeh,” Living Juicy program by Rhea Goodman, KSFR radio, Santa Fe, NM

2008 “Rwanda Healing Project,” by Chris Landy, produced by Barefoot Artists, Inc.2007 “The Spark of Hope,” by Chris Noble, photographer for National Geographics 2006 “Edens, Lost & Found, How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American

Cities,” by Harry Wiland & Dale Bell, WHYY and other PBS affiliates2004 “The Legend of Lily Yeh,” by Wei-Jane Chir, bronze medal winner of the

Columbia Film Festival 2003 “Kujenga Pamoja, Together We Build,” by Samuele Masotto2002 The Village of Arts and Humanities, Artscape, WHYY 91FM 2002 “Talking Cloths: Making Art and Making Community,” by Barry Dornfeld2002 Inliquid.com Silent Auction benefiting the Village of Arts and Humanities2001 Dzegvi Children, Documentary Film, by Glenn Holsten and produced by Yeh

about street children and their families in Dzegvi outside of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

2001 KPFA 94.1 FM Public Radio at UC Berkeley, CA2000 “Poetry TV,” by Glenn Holsten for Spotlight, WHYY/TV121999 “An Angel in the Village,” by Glenn holsten, a one-hour documentary film, PBS 1999 “Newsmakers of the Year,” CN8, Comcast Network1998 “Lily Yeh’s Village of Arts and Humanities,”by Hsiao Yen, Chinese Television

Network1998 “HomeTown Heroes,” Always Kids TV Network, Video West, UT1998 “100 Fellows,” by Glenn Holsten, Pew Fellowship in the Arts1997 “The Village of Arts and Humanities,“ Today Show, NBC 1997 “Multiculturism at the Village,” Always Kids TV Network, UT1996 “The Village of Arts and Humanities,” Osgoode File, PBS1995 “The Magic Village,” TV31994 “Bridging the Generations,” Women's Way1993 “People’s Talk,” TV101992 “Putting It Together In North Philadelphia,” a 30 minutes documentary film by

Glenn Holsten, WHYY/TV121991 “It Pulls It All Apart,” by Glenn Holsten for Spotlight, WHYY/TV121991 “Lily Yeh’ Dream,” by Terri Chesmar for Spotlight, WHYY/TV121991 “The Village of Arts and Humanities,” Interview, Artscape, WHYY/91FM

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