Acknowledgement
We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for supporting the research (grant number 430-2013-1025). We are grateful to all of the community members, teachers, students, professionals, Fourgrounds Media, and anyone else who helped to make Community Arts Zone such a successful research initiative. We are grateful to all of the reviewers and to Pedagogies: An International Journal for making this special issue a reality. A note of thanks as well to Cheryl McLean for providing careful, thoughtful feedback on this introduction. Finally, we are grateful to Jennifer Turner for her meticulous and laborious work on the research – right through to the end of our journey. This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Debra McLauchlan – a strong advocate for the arts and her Niagara community.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.