Author: Peggy McGlone
Title: Skateboarders, Musicians Team Up at an Unlikely Venue: The Kennedy Center
Author: Andrew Limbong
Title: Skateboarding Celebrated at Kennedy Center Festival
Cover Photo: Michael Kircher
Garth Ross is the executive director of the Schwarzman Center at Yale and a critical third curator of the Finding a Line project. He's also a good friend and someone I love collaborating with. His chapter entitled, "From Fight Club to the Kennedy Center: How We Learned to Cross Invisible Bridges", was recently published in the book, Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change (2017 Emerald Publishing Limited).
Photo: Garth Ross by Michael Kircher
Writer: Jim Murphy
Title: Duty Now for the Future Retrospective - Ben Ashworth Interview
I was honored to be interviewed for a special issue of Juice Magazine that focused on skateboarders who create spaces for other skateboarders.
http://juicemagazine.com/home/duty-now-for-the-future-retrospective-ben-ashworth/
After leaving the Kennedy Center, the Finding a Line bowl was re-planted in a new and fertile creative ecosystem at Union Market DC. While there, the bowl blossomed in collaboration with Gallaudet University professor Max Kazemzadeh and his students, local businesses, artists, and institutions. The constantly morphing bowl not only continued to function as a community platform for creatives, but also evolved as a NASA funded data mapping research space. This unique hybrid of ecological, social, scientific and art happening research garnered the attention of The National Academies and was recognized as an exemplar of the integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in higher education.
