Ferdinand Lewis
Cajun, South Louisiana

ferdinandlewis@sbcglobal.net

Education Background:
Ferdinand Lewis has written about the arts and entertainment since1990, and his journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Daily Variety, as well as in the magazines American Theatre, Animation, Logik and Audio Media, and on websites for Discreet and the Community Arts Network. He is the editor of the forthcoming Ensemble Works: An Anthology, from TCG publishers, and he co-authored, Touch: Tactile Graphics, published by Rockport Publishers. Lewis is currently a researcher/writer for Americans For The Arts Animating Democracy Initiative, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, and is currently consulting on curriculum development for Cornerstone Theater, Americas leading community-based theater company. Lewis has taught in interdisciplinary arts environments since 1988, including the California Summer School for the Arts and special workshops for the California Community College system, and he was on the full-time faculty at California Institute of the Arts for a decade. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles-based theater company Ghost Road. In 2001 he produced the documentary, Art Works: The Community Arts Partnership, funded by the Lila-Wallace/Readers Digest Foundation.

Interests within the Planning field:
As a planning student, Lewis is particular interest is in the role of culture in development.