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Editor in Chief:
Amalia Mesa-Bains, California State University Monterey Bay
Project Director & Managing Editor:
Ken Krafchek, Maryland Institute College of Art
Project coordinator:
Paula Philips, Maryland Institute College of Art
Editorial Review Board:
Ron Bechet, Xavier University of Louisiana
Lori Hager, University of Oregon
Marina Gutierrez, Cooper Union
Ken Krafchek, Maryland Institute College of Art
Sonia Manjon, California College of the Arts
Amalia Mesa-Bains, California State University, Monterey Bay
Paul Teruel, Columbia College Chicago
Stephani Woodson, Arizona State University
Publisher:
Maryland Institute College of Art and The Community Arts Network, an online project of Art in the Public Interest
Manuscript Editor:
Linda Frye Burnham
Designer:
Steven Durland
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Volume I, Number 2, July 2008
Complexities and Collaborations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Power dynamics, resources, support and responsibilities in campus-community collaborations. By Celina Aguilar and Kate McLeod
The Porch — A Cultural Center in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans
Starting a cultural organization in a neighborhood struggling with survival. By Ron Bechet, Willie Birch, and Helen Regis
The Importance of Self-Reflection for Community-based Educators
Reflection and personal development as inherent components of the art-making process. By Sheila K. Fox
Warts and All: The Partnership that Built a Community Arts Graduate Program
Sometimes the most difficult partner relationships are the ones inside the institution. By Nicole Garneau and Phyllis Johnson
Campus-Community Partnerships: Supporting or Destroying the Field of Community Arts?
While higher education trains students to work in the community, are community partners experiencing funding setbacks and closure? By Sonia BasSheva Mañjon
Training and Partnerships in Rutgers' Transcultural New Jersey Public Service Arts Program
The service-learning and civic-engagement movement in higher education is increasingly challenging conventional academic culture. By Linda Melamed and Isabel Nazario
Intersections of Community Arts and Activism with a Liberal Arts Education
Can collaboration between liberal arts and visual arts increase learning outcomes for students and benefits to communities? By Mindy Nierenberg
Best Practices or Principles of Practice? Reflecting upon Language & Roles
The lack of accord around the use of the term "best practice." By Melanie Ohm
Rez CAP
Across a thousand miles, two cultures, two communities come together: MICA and the Dakota Nation. By John Peacock
Volume I, Number 1, June 2008
Writings by Amalia Mesa-Bains; Laura Agnich, Kimberly Baker, Megan Carney and Shannon Turner; William Cleveland and Patricia Shifferd; E. Blaise DePaolo; Jane Hirshberg; Karma Mayet Johnson; Ken Krafchek; Meade Palidofsky; Johanna Poethig; and Rachel Marie-Crane Williams.
ISSN#: Pending
Copyright: Art in the Public Interest unless otherwise noted; all other publication rights revert to the author(s) thereof.
Opinions expressed by authors of Community Arts Perspectives authors do not necessarily express those of the editors, Maryland Institute College of Art or Art in the Public Interest.
Submissions for further volumes of Community Arts Perspectives will be requested in summer 2008. Guidelines will be available at that time.
Citations :
Please cite essays in Community Arts Perspectives in this way:
Author last name, first name. "Article Title." Community Arts Perspectives: A Publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. Pub. Community Arts Network and Maryland Institute College of Art. Volume.number (Year). Day Month Year you accessed it, plus URL.
Example:
Doe, Jane. "Teaching Dance in Prison." Community Arts Perspectives: A Publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. Community Arts Network and Maryland Institute College of Art. 1.1 (2008). 8 June 2008 <URL>.
Further information about The Community Arts Covening and Research Project (http://www.mica.edu/communityartsconvening)
Advisory Committee
The full Advisory Committee of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project includes the Editorial Board Members, above, and Jan Cohen-Cruz, Imagining America/Syracuse University; John Giordano, Massachusetts College of Art; Robert Leonard, Virginia Tech; Ian Watson, Rutgers University; Marianne Petit, New York University.
Funder, Sponsor and Project History
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) has provided funding to support the Community Arts Convening & Research Project, making possible a national convening, research and publication of research and writing arising from the project concerning the work of the universities with degree-granting programs in arts and community building.
For more than five years, NCF’s Art and Culture Program has supported universities that are teaching their students how to use art as a tool for community organizing. Each year, the number of universities creating these programs has grown, and in the spirit of community-based work, these universities have shared curriculum, they have partnered on grants, and five of them published a casebook. In 2006, NCF grantees convened in New Orleans and developed a strategy for strengthening the community arts program at Xavier University in New Orleans—recommendations that are being implemented this year. Additionally, universities from across the county convened at California College of the Arts in November of 2006.
The 2008 meeting at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) enabled faculty, students and community members to generate new ideas, solve problems, share practices and identify new research questions.
Maryland Institute College of Art has a long history of creative community engagement and is dedicated to the development and advancement of community arts models at several levels. Through its Master of Arts in Community Arts (MACA), under the umbrella of the College’s nationalCenter for Arts Education, MICA prepares graduate-level students in the art of building community through collaboration in the arts. The Community Art Corps (CAC), an AmeriCorps program, works with a cadre of MACA students and other artists in intensive yearlong placements with nonprofit organizations in Baltimore, creating, supporting and sustaining community arts efforts, projects and programs. Since 1998, through the nationally renowned Community Arts Partnership program (CAP), MICA has supported ongoing community-based art projects that enrich the lives of children and families, unify and strengthen neighborhoods, and provide valuable professional development and social engagement experiences for MICA students. Through MICA’s graphic design, environmental design, illustration, and fine arts departments, students and faculty engage in real-world projects in collaboration with communities that focus on public health education, urban development, historic preservation, and empowering Baltimore communities and the surrounding region.
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Community Arts Perspectives is a periodic online publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. Its mission is to advance the field of community arts by providing a platform for inclusive dialogue and documentation linking academia and community. The Project is coordinated by Maryland Institute College of Art. The Community Arts Convening and Research Project is a national platform for the work of the universities with degree-granting programs in arts and community building.
VOLUME ONE
The first volume of Community Arts Perspectives, published in 2008, contains research and other writing generated through the initial convening of the Project, sponsored and hosted by Maryland Institute College of Art, March 16-18, 2008, and funded through a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation's Art and Culture Program. The convening provided the opportunity for college and university faculty and students and community-based practitioners to meet and share resources and models for best practices in the field; define and solve current challenges facing the field; identify and discuss new research and generate new ideas; develop strong leadership; and cultivate new partnerships.
Topics for the meeting were derived from essays written by faculty, students and community practitioners representing the community-based arts from throughout the United States. The essays were gathered in fall 2007 through a request for proposals issued by the Project Editorial Review Board of the Project. Submissions were reviewed and selected by the Review Board for discussion at the March national convening, then edited and published online by the Community Arts Network in Volume One of Community Arts Perspectives, beginning in June 2008.
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