New Village Press Explained

New Village Press
Status:	Active
Founded:	2005
Country:	United States
Headquarters:	New York, New York
Distribution:	NYU Press
Publications:	Books
Founder:	Lynne Elizabeth (Director)

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

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

• 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)
• 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

• 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]

External links

• New Village Press

Notes and References

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3. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/best-small-publisher-an-altruistic-press-that-makes-building--community-a-priority/BestOf?oid=1167407 East Bay Express
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5. Web site: New Village Journal: Building Sustainable Cultures. staff. new village journal. www.newvillage.org. en. 2017-07-31.
6. http://www.adpsr.org/home/about_us About ADPSR
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13. Web site: Who We Are. Center for the Study of Art and Community. 2017-07-31.
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30. Web site: Bio: Cartoonist, Rapper and Multimedia Artist Keith Knight The Official K Chronicles and (Th)ink Website. www.kchronicles.com. en-US. 2017-07-31.
31. Web site: Glenna Lang. 2021-02-12. NYU Press. en-US.
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34. Web site: Annie Lanzillotto L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir. www.annielanzillotto.com. 2017-07-31.
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36. Web site: 'What a shame': Polio activist shares how pity can be harmful to people with disabilities. TODAY.com. en. 2019-12-04.
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53. News: Biography of Alfredo Cardona Peña (1917-1995). 2020-06-01.
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55. News: Louise Chawla. 2020-06-01.
56. Web site: Ann Snitow. nyupress.org. EN. 2020-06-01.
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