Here’s an assortment of ashley sparks writing about their work, talking about their work, or other people writing about ashley’s work.
“The skills that you have as a theater artist are actually superpowers for solving community problems and creating spaces for people to have hard conversations,” says sparks.
Imaging New Solutions; Forecast: Issue #5: Housing, Summer 2022
Disrupting White Dominant Culture, Emergent Strategy Podcast, Fall 2022
Imaging New Solutions; Forecast: Issue #5: Housing, Summer 2022
The Housing Crisis takes Stage at REDCAT; Los Angeles Times, May 2022
Bird Songs for Liberation: Nesting, Flocking, Migration; Written for The Guild of Future Architects, May 2020
Shifting the Affordable Housing Narrative through Arts and Culture; Shelterforce, November, 2019
The Voices of Housing and Energy Policy: A Story Toolkit, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2019
Toy Soldier and Parking Lots: Participatory Theater with White Rural Virginians, A Blade of Grass Magazine, October 2020
ROOTS Theater Artists Keep the Fight Going After 40 Years, by Jim O’Quinn; American Theater Magazine, August 2016
Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place, NEA Publication, by Jenna Moran, Jason Schupbach, Courtney Spearman, and Jennifer Reut, May 2015
Lisa D'Amour Juggles 'Airline Highway' and 'Milton', a Tale of Five Towns by Melena Ryzik, New York Times, March 19, 2015
The State of Cornerstone Theater's Art, by David C. Nichols; American Theater Magazine, October 11, 2014
MicroFest USA - Documentation Series, 2012 - 13
Theatre, Spiritual Healing, and Democracy in the City: Go Ye Therefore... in Katrina +5 New Orleans, by Catherine Michna; 2010 - Theatre Forum
“Some of the most powerful ways to create place is with performance because it mutually constructs space. Performance can animate civic, physical, and psychic space. Performance goes beyond participation to form and inspire opinions, ideas, and empathy. There is inherently deep power in story and narrative.”
Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place, NEA Publication, by Jenna Moran, Jason Schupbach, Courtney Spearman, and Jennifer Reut, May 2015