Linda Frye Burnham Biography
Linda Frye Burnham is a writer of national reputation on a variety of subjects, with special emphasis in artists working in community, education and activism. She has also written extensively on performance art and feminism and multiculturalism in the arts. She was the founder of High Performance magazine (1978), The 18th St. Arts Complex (with Susanna Dakin, 1988), Highways Performance Space (with Tim Miller, 1989), Art in the Public Interest (with Steven Durland, 1995) and the Community Arts Network (with Durland, Bob Leonard and Ann Kilkelly, 1999). Burnham is an arts consultant (National Endowment for the Arts, Little City Foundation, Arts International, James Irvine Foundation, Americans for the Arts) and she lectures and teaches in the arts. She is the editor of APInews on the Community Arts Network; a contributing writer for national arts publications (Artforum, The Drama Review); a writer on general subjects for The Independent Weekly of North Carolina, and editor (with Durland) of The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena (Gardiner, N.Y.: Critical Press, 1998). She holds an M.F.A. in writing from UC Irvine and a B.A. in Humanities from USC.
Some of my work
Book chapters in
- Art in the Public Interest (UMI Press) 1989
- L.A. Festival Program Book (McTaggart-Wolk) 1990
- Reimaging America: The Arts of Social Change (New Society Publishers) 1989
- Women for All Seasons (The Woman's Building) 1988
- Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists (Midmarch Arts) 1988
Articles in
Artforum, Atlanta Artpapers, Community Television Review, High Performance, Inside Arts, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (U. Kansas), L.A Style, L.A. Weekly, Multicultural Digest, The Drama Review, The Independent Weekly of North Carolina, Utne Reader
Fiction and Poetry
I also write this stuff, some published in little magazines. A few years ago I published a little green book of my work under the title Heartland Drive-In Coke. It is just the right size to fit in the pocket of your overalls. There are only 15 of them left and they stand on my mantel between two Coke bottles.
Copyright 2001, Linda Frye Burnham