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The Community Arts Reading Room has an extensive collection of online essays and links to other resources. Of particular interest are the essays by Maryo Gard Ewell:
The following publications are intimately connected to the Robert E. Gard Foundation.
Grassroots Theater : a search for regional arts in America / Robert Gard ; with a foreword by David H. Stevens ; and with an introduction by Maryo Gard Ewell. University of Wisconsin Press, 1955; reprinted Greenwood Press, 1978; reprinted University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Reviewed by Philip Zwerling in Theatre Journal (December 2001)
Grassroots Theater is available from University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Services for $20.50, which includes shipping, or from University of Wisconsin Press for $14.95 plus tax and shipping.
American Indian Voices : a regional literary symposium, September 26-28, 1991. Sponsored by The Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation and The Keland Endowment Fund of the Johnson Foundation. Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters ; Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation, 1992.
A National Plan For Arts in Small Communities developed by the Office of Community Arts Development-Wisconsin Idea Theatre. Prepared by Robert E. Gard [and others]. Office of Community Arts Development, University Extension, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
"Verdant Music" by composer Michael Torke. "Color music" [Sound recording] (Argo 433 071-2). [Score] Hendon Music ; Boosey & Hawkes, sole agents, c1986. First performance by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Foss, conductor, Nov. 20-24, 1986. Commissioned by Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation.
The score for "Verdant Music" was published by Hendon Music in 1986. Renamed "Green", it was recorded by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Argo 433 071-2 in 1991.