New Village Press
 | |
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Lynne Elizabeth (Director) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Distribution | NYU Press |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | newvillagepress |
New Village Press is a not-for-profit book publisher founded in 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area now based in New York, New York. It began as a national publishing project of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), an educational non-profit organization founded in 1981.[1]
New Village Press books address topics in the fields of social justice, urban ecology, community development and culture such as community arts, neighborhood commons, and participatory democracy.[2]
In 2006, New Village Press was selected as the "Best Small Publisher in the East Bay", by East Bay Express.[3] It partners with and is distributed by New York University Press.[4]
History
[edit]New Village Press originated as New Village Journal, a periodical published from 1999 until 2002, which focused on the revitalization of communities.[5] In 2018, New Village Press incorporated as its own nonprofit, separating from Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility.[6] New Village Press began a distribution partnership with NYU Press in 2018.[7] Originally based in Oakland, CA, New Village Press is now situated in New York, NY.
Recent titles
[edit]- The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life by Muriel Fox (2024).
- Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance by Merideth Taylor (2024)
- Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty— 30th Anniversary Edition by Anne Herbert, Paloma Pavel, and Mayumi Oda (2024)
- I Opened the Gate Laughing: An Inner Journey — 20th Anniversary Edition by Mayumi Oda (2024)
- Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World's Smallest Death Cafe by Mark Dowie (2024)
- Luck by Margaret Randall (2023)
- That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions edited by Leigh Sugar (2023)
- Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House by Joyce Milambiling (2023)
- Stuff: Instead of a Memoir by Lucy R. Lippard (2023)
- Zoned Out! Race Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, (Revised Edition) edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse (2023)
- Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Vol 1 & Vol 2 edited by Ben Fink (2023)
- Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990-2020 edited by Ben Fink (2023)
- Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975-1989 edited by Ben Fink (2023)
- A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement by David Cortright (2023)
- In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated? by Arlene Goldbard (2023)
- Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly (2022)
- The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry edited by Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, and Sara Press (2022)
- Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind by Louise Dunlap (2022)
- We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons by Diane Rothbard Margolis (2022)
- Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea by Aviva Rahmani (2022)
- Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira (2022)
- Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised edition) by Margaret Randall (2022)
- Artists in My Life by Margaret Randall (2022)
- Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire edited by Edvige Giunta a Mary Anne Trasciatti (2022)
- Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities edited by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fermantle, and Aviva Rahmani (2022)
- Cultivating Creativity by Iain Robertson (2022)
- Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly (2021)
- Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book by Susan Viguers and Lily Yeh (2021)
- How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories by John F. Forester (2021)
- In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California by Daniel J. O'Connell and Scott J. Peters (2021)
- Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania by Glenna Lang (2021)
- My Life in 100 Objects by Margaret Randall (2020)
- Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All by Mindy Thompson Fullilove (2020)
- A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran by Nasser Rahmaninejad (2020)
- Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe by Ann Snitow (2020)
- Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War edited by Ron Carver, David Cortright and Barbara Doherty (2019)
- Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride by Nadina LaSpina (2019)
- In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers by Chellis Glendinning (2019)
- Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities by Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla and Mara Mintzer (2018)
- Works of Heart: Building Village Through the Arts by Lynne Elizabeth and Suzanne Young (2018)
- Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth by Alfredo Cardona Peña, translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine (2018)
- Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power by Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson Fullilove (2018)
- The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race by Carl Anthony (2017)
- Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition by Keith Knight and Mat Schwarzman (2017)
- Root Shock by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, New Village Press edition (2016)
- Openings by Sabra Moore (2016)
- Growing a Life by Illène Pevec (2016)
Notable authors
[edit]- Carl Anthony,[8] architect and environmental justice activist[9]
- Linda Frye Burnham,[10] a writer focused on performance and community arts[11]
- William Cleveland,[12] director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community[13]
- David Cortright, American scholar and peace activist.[14]
- Sharon Gamson Danks, environmental planner and founder of Bay Tree Design[15]
- Mindy Thompson Fullilove,[16] clinical psychiatrist and educator[17]
- Arlene Goldbard,[18] writer, social activist, and consultant[19]
- Chester Hartman,[20] urban planner, low-income housing advocate, and academic[21]
- Anne Herbert (writer), former assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly[22]
- Spoon Jackson,[23] poet and writer who discovered his talent while serving a life sentence[24]
- James Jiler,[25] executive director of Urban GreenWorks[26]
- Roger Katan,[27] architect and artist[28]
- Keith Knight (cartoonist),[29] syndicated cartoonist[30]
- Glenna Lang,[31] illustrator, designer, and artist[32]
- Annie Lanzillotto,[33] poet and performance artist[34]
- Nadina LaSpina,[35] disability rights activist.[36]
- Karl Linn,[37] landscape architect and founder of the community garden movement in the United States[38]
- Sabra Moore,[39] artist and activist[40]
- Beverly Naidus,[41] artist and educator[42]
- Illène Pevec,[43] educator focusing on the development of youth gardens[44]
- Margaret Randall, feminist poet and social activist[45]
- Ronald Shiffman,[46] cofounder of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development[47]
- Judith Tannenbaum,[48] writer and prison arts educator[49]
- Lily Yeh,[50] international artist[51]
- Alfredo Cardona Peña,[52] journalist, poet, essayist, biographer [53]
- Louise Chawla,[54] environmental activist with a focus on children and nature [55]
- Ann Snitow,[56] writer, teacher, feminist activist[57]
- Nasser Rahmaninejad,[58] artist, activist, lecturer on theatre and politics [59]
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