Billy Yalowitz is Associate Professor and co-director of the Community Arts Practices program at Tyler School of Art. His interdisciplinary performance works have been presented off-Broadway, in Mexico, and in Israel. Yalowitz has directed critically acclaimed and nationally-profiled community-based performance-installations in Philadelphia neighborhoods since 1991, most recently with Art Sanctuary in North Philadelphia, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture in Kensington, and the Black Bottom in West Philadelphia.