ART AS
COMMUNITY BUILDING

2001 - Present
Director/Co-Founder, Artists Unite, Inc. Artists Unite is dedicated to increasing artists' ability to make and show work and the public's ability to experience art in their lives.

2010 - Present
Kid’s Guernica, International Peace Mural Projects

2016 - Present
Visionary Organizing Lab

2008 - 2010
IAPWHA, International Artists for Peace and World Harmony Organizing Committee

2006 - Present
The Network of Spiritual Progressives

2006 - 2008
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) Advisory Board

2002 - 2004
Foundation for Ethics & Meaning, Board Member

2002 - 2004
Co-founder Center for Community & Dialogue

2000­­­ - Present
ABC Global (Association Building Community) Process Arts

1995 - Present
James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

1994 - 1996
Director/Co-Founder, Create Artists & Musicians Alliance (CARMA), San Francisco, CA

1994 - Present
Community Building Workshops: CA, DC, MI, NY

1970 - Present
National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

ARTISTS UNITE
AWARDS/GRANTS

2017
Citizens Committee for New York City Neighborhood Grant

2015
Citizens Committee for New York City Neighborhood Grant

2011 - 2019
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant 

2010
City Council Discretionary Fund Grant

2009
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Grant
Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant
City Council Discretionary Fund Grant
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant
Fund for Creative Communities Grant

2008
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Grant 
Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant 
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant
City Council Discretionary Fund Grant

2007
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant
City Council Discretionary Fund Grant
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant

2006
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant 
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant

2005
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant
Hudson Heights Neighborhood Grant Grant

2004
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant 

2003
Medical Center Neighborhood Fund Grant 

2001
Blumberg Fund Grant

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020
Manhattan Times, “Artists in a Life of Quarantine,” by Sherry Mazzochi, March
Manhattan Times, “Untitled,” poem by Rosa Naparstek, September 3

2019
Under the Bridge Anthology pub. Under the Bridge Press

2018
Manhattan Times, “Statue of Liberty: Tired of You’re Tired,” July

2016
NY Arts: “Rosa at Rio,” by Ruth Lilienstein-Gatton, June

2012
Petroleum Paradox, Garden of Eden, Exhibition Catalogue

2011
Unbearables Book of Sex pub. by The Unbearables Collective

2010
Poieninkaipraattein, Create & Do
Florida State University Art and Social Justice Symposium: The Aesthetic Experience: Art and Personal/Political Transformation, January

2008
Manhattan Times, “Girl Holding Tree,” February
Manhattan Times, “Rosa Naparstek: Exhibit/Circles,” by Dan Bader, September
”Now:Here:This,” Exhibition catalog published by Artists Unite
WDET Public Radio, Art & Creating Community

2007
Baruch University Radio, “Sources of Creativity,” interview

2006
J.T. Kirkland's Thinking About Art, "Artists Interview Artists", by Howard Salmon

2005
Virtual Comunidad 2005/Now:Here:This, “Art, Politics & the Power of Presence: A Conversation,” by Wendy Newton

2003
NY ONE, NYC, Mannequin Project 

2001
Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust, edited by Cynthia M. Brody

1997
Berlin Public Radio, “Prisoners of Childhood,” interview by Detlef Berentzen 

1995
KPFA Radio, SF, “Politics, Art & Transformation”

1994
San Francisco Jewish Bulletin, “Sculptures Reflect Repressed Memories of War,” by Larry Kanter
KTVU San Francisco, “Childescapes Exhibit”

Selected Talks

2021
Meet the Artists: A Conversation With The Artists (online)
In/Out-Light/Dark: Women In The Heights And Art In Our Time, NoMAA Online Gallery Exhibition, New York, NY

2016
Art & Building Our Soul, Rio Penthouse Gallery, New York, NY

2015
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Talk & Screening of the documentary film, “Senior Planet,” New York, NY

2010
Change Yourself to Change the World, New Left Forum, Pace University, New York, NY
The Aesthetic Experience: The Connection between Art and Personal/Political Transformation, Guernica Conference and Florida State University Symposium on Art & Social Justice, Tallahassee, FL

2009
Childescapes: The Emotional Roots of the World We Create, Talk & Slide Exhibit, A-Lab Forum, Crossing Arts Gallery, Queens, NY

2008
Art as a Force for Human Rights, UNESCO Work Group Presentation, United Nations Conference, 60th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration. Representative of New York Metropolitan Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violence, Paris, France
Art/Story-The Power to Build Community, Talk & Slide Exhibit, The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit, MI
Art & The Politics of Presence Talk & Slide Exhibit, The Corner Stone Center, New York, NY
How Our Inner Landscapes form the Emotional Roots of the World Personally & Politically, Talk & Slide Exhibit, Hebrew Tabernacle, NY, New York         

2007
Sources of Creativity, Baruch University, New York, NY

2006
Community Building, Tikkun Conference, Washington, DC
Art & Community, Lincoln Square Synagogue, New York, NY

2005
Community Building, Tikkun Conference, New York, NY
Creativity-the Source Within, Lincoln Square Synagogue, New York, NY

1997
Group Process, Talk with Prisoners of Childhood Exhibit Honoring Alice Miller at International Psychohistory Association Convention, Fordham University, New York, NY

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D. Program, Urban and Regional Planning

Wayne State Law School, Detroit, MI
Juris Doctor

New York University, New York, NY
Bachelor of the Arts, English Literature and Philosophy

Pratt Institute School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
Physics Major