Rural Studio

Using "context-based learning," students take up residence in rural Hale County, Alabama, to collaborate with communtiy members making housing and community projects in one of the poorest regions of the nation. Second-year Program, Thesis Program, Outreach Program. Founded by Dennis K. Ruth and the late Samuel Mockbee.

Community Arts Partnership

Program links CalArts to community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County, part of expanding joint endeavor to provide college-level arts education to middle- and high-school students. CalArts students teach classes at communtiy sites and produce workshops, performances, exhibitions, concerts, readings and screenings that involve high-school students in intensive arts training.

Center for Art and Public Life

Wide variety of intensive opportunities. Students in Action (workstudy, employment, fellowships, individual projects, national and international); Arts Education Initiative (school projects and partnerships, teaching programs, K-12 Teaching Institute); Special Initiatives; Academic Opportunities (linking theory and practice, classroom and community, art and service learning). See also BFA in Community Arts at CCA [college formerly named California College of Arts and Craft].

Arts Activism and AIDS Awareness courses and programs

Several courses and programs to train UCLA students in arts activism and AIDS awareness. Examples of courses: “Make Art/ Stop AIDS,” taught by Professor David Gere, teaches students about art as a tool in AIDS prevention and treatment efforts through “collaborative theory-in-action projects.” “AIDS Performance Team,” guest taught by South African performance artist Pieter-Dirk Uys, teaches students techniques for devising anti-AIDS theater, such as satire, truth-telling and improvisation; culminates in a collectively created performance for World AIDS Day. Examples of programs: “AMP it up!” brings together UCLA students, high school students and community centers for “arts-based, multiple-intervention, peer-education” (AMP). The global network, Make Art/ Stop AIDS, is also based in UCLA’s Art | Global Health Center.

National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program

Two-year training program in collaboration with De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group, with third-year paid internship by invitation (including special project of student design). Core of program revolves around performing-arts practice, independent studies model. All students engage in projects that take them into schools, into communities and into collaboration with other organizations and artists. Selected students participate in residencies at Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto; Studio Ypsilon of the Czech Republic; and University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus. In cases where students have identified a desire to work in their home community, relationships and networking opportunities are integrated into the program in an effort to build the local infrastructure required to allow graduates full participation in the arts in the region and location of their choice. Pilot program in Training in Remote Communities.

Czech Republic: Post-Communist Transition and the Arts

Students spend four months in Czech Republic, based in Prague, considering "the role of artists and creative civic initiatives in raising awareness of local and global issues in a country where art and creative dissent historically has played a crucial role in challenging oppressive regimes." Includes intensive Czech language study; interdisciplinary seminar on Czech history, politics, society, arts and culture, civil society and community revival; educational excursions to neighboring countries; five-day rural visit to towns in Bohemia and Moravia; field-study seminar in learning across cultures; independent study project; extended homestay with a Czech family.

Arts & Community Development

Course introduces students to theory and practice of arts as social action. Fieldwork in ongoing arts-based community projects, supported by readings and discussions in social and community psychology, the role of the arts in community development and methods of community research. Students design a community research project and create personal narratives in their chosen medium reflecting some aspect of the course.

Center for Community Arts Partnerships

Center specializes in high-quality, arts education programming for Chicago youth and Columbia College students and faculty. Programs: Community Schools, Project AIM, ArtUP, Urban Missions and graduate program Arts in Youth and Community Development (see entry). CCAP partners with academic departments of the college to develop community-based learning, arts-integrated curricula and reciprocal partnerships.

Collaborative Humanities and Arts Network for Growth and Education (CHANGE)

Grassroots education and outreach program housed in University of Iowa’s Women’s Resource and Action Center. CHANGE programs: provide opportunities for creative scholarship, collaboration, support, training and service to students, staff, faculty and community members; support educational experiences in the arts and humanities in partnerships with local social-service agencies; train volunteers to write curricula, seek funding, advocate for the disenfranchised, facilitate and more; share the work of participants through exhibitions, installations, readings, performances and publication. Led by Rachel Williams.

Studio 804

A one-semester design-build experience: Students carry out all aspects of building an affordable structure in the community, from initial design to finished construction and documentation. Students also explore architectural solutions that promote efficiency, sustainability and creative use of materials. Program committed to “continued research and development into affordable and innovative housing solutions while striving to elevate the degree of design aptitude and urban planning strategies into inexpensive housing options.” Program goal: educational experience as a means to provide affordable buildings within marginal neighborhoods.

Community Arts Program

Links the university’s resources with diverse communities in the Greater New Orleans area to address issues of education, cultural equity and neighborhood empowerment. All projects grounded in reciprocal relationships based on mutual dialogue, inclusiveness, openness and respect, and emphasize sustainable community development. Projects include: Mardi Gras Indian Arts Intensive, an eight-week immersion experience for local youth; Community Arts Minor; Xavier Students in the Community, a range of both class-based and field-based opportunities for community engagement; and career development opportunities. Founded in 1999.

National Center for the Urban Community

Cooperative venture that coordinates Education, Self-Sufficiency and Asset-Creation programs for helping the urban poor. Fosters applied research, service learning and community service related to urban issues. Job development and placement services to more than 1,000 Tulane and Xavier students who work as tutors, volunteers and testing facilitators. Develops interdisciplinary curriculum cross-listed between the two institutions.

Art and Civic Engagement

Fosters development of partnerships with art, culture, research, education, healthcare, social service, business and entrepreneurial ventures. Community-based learning in teaching/mentoring young people, arts and medicine, public art, international projects, "involvement in meaningful citizenship, community service and service-learning opportunities." Internships and Professional Practice courses embracing role of art in public life. Founded in partnership with Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service.

Arts of Citizenship

Supports faculty, graduate students and community partners in strengthening and expanding publicly engaged, innovative work in the arts, humanities and design, including research, creative projects and teaching. Set of programs designed to: encourage collaborative projects with faculty, graduate students, cultural and arts institutions, government and community partners; provide grants for research, creative work and intellectual conversation; build capacity for sustainable endeavors that expand social capital of community collaborators. Affiliated with University of Michigan Ginsberg Center (see entry).

University of Michigan Ginsberg Center

Center engaging students, faculty and community members in learning together through community service and civic participation. Offers vast array of service-learning COURSES, including those in art and design, in which students provide direct service to local schools, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. "You can take a service learning course from almost every department at the University, and independent study credit is available if you can't find the opportunity for which you are looking." Also supports communtiy service and learning PROGRAMS in arts & culture: Prison Creative Arts Program, Oakland Writing Project: Project Outreach, Community Art Projects, Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach, Spanish Language Internship Program, University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy (UCLL) Children and Teen Programs, Migrant Farm Worker Outreach and Education Program, and Lives of Urban Children and Youth (LUCY). And much more...

Community Based Theater

Course introduces students to history, theory and practice of community-based theater. Look at how the production process enables community and how individuals negotiate their belonging to groups. Students intern at local theaters, learning practical tactics of community-based performance, and complete a final project. Taught by Sonja Kuftinec.

City Arts and Writing for Social Change

Two 16-credit college seminar courses taught by Bill Reichard through HECUA (the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs), an inter-institutional consortium of 17 colleges and universities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., area that offers experientially based off-campus study programs focused on social change/social justice. HECUA's roots go back to the 1968 riots and fires in north Minneapolis following the assassination of Martin Luther King: a program for college students called Crisis Colony developing new ways to understand the nature of the urban crisis. City Arts (spring semesters): Embraces a wide variety of creative practices as essential tools for civic engagement, participatory democracy and social justice. Includes classroom seminars, field visits and a professional internship. Writing for Social Change (fall semesters): Combines traditional methods of literary and cultural analysis with creative-writing workshops in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, using HECUA’s approach to interdisciplinary, reflective critique. Includes seminars, workshops, field study and professional internship. See HECUA Web site for syllabi, program descriptions and program documentation.

Certificate Program in Arts in Prevention

Intended to enhance skills and knowledge of professionals working with youth in using the arts in positive youth development and as part of a comprehensive prevention strategy. Nine required courses plus two elective courses. Joint venture with Center for the Arts. Write for schedule.

Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities

Rutgers Office committed to fostering campus-community partnerships; enhancing arts and humanities; advancing service-learning; and affirming diversity. Key programs include: Transcultural New Jersey Arts and Education Initiative, the Transcultural New Jersey Public Service Artists Program and the Bildner Faculty Fellows Intercultural Initiative. The Transcultural New Jersey Initiative is “the unifying theme for museums, and education institutions to examine the states demographic landscape through a series of year-long visual art exhibitions, and community-based activities that promote the contributions of underrepresented populations.” Partnerships include Art Without Borders and Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Office led by Isabel Nazario.

Professional Development in Educational Drama

Kaplan Center offers a variety of noncredit workshops in Theatre for Youth and Community Development to teachers, teaching artists and youth development and community outreach professionals.

Theatre Outreach

Program using music, writing, theater techniques and the visual arts to address social and community issues. Grounded in two-hour weekly core class, Methods of Theatre Outreach. Sends students into the community, encourages development of original material by exploring everyday life with special emphasis on cross-cultural experiences.

NYU Creative Writing Program Literary Outreach

Scholarships, fellowships and outreach activities available in the NYU Creative Writing Program enabling students to teach creative writing in nontraditional settings. Opportunities (and sites): New York Times Foundation Creative Writing Fellowships (N.Y.C. high schools), Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship (Goldwater Hospital for the severely physically challenged), Starworks Teaching Project (hospitalized and disabled teens and children) and Iraq Veterans Writing Fellowship. Stipends and tuition offered in some cases.

Theatre 393: Cultural, Ethnic and Gender Issues in Dramatic Literature

Exposes students to the critical issues and creative methods that currently make up the field of community-based theater. Will focus on three specific methods for creating community-based performance: 1. Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, 2. storytelling, oral history and documentary drama, 3. Street theater. Each method employed in relationship to the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood community in Cincinnati.

Citizen Artist Community Engagement Project

Six-credit service-learning course partnering BGSU students with students at Libbey High School, a diverse, urban public high school in the south side of Toledo. Includes classroom work at BGSU in theory and pedagogy of arts-based civic engagement and service learning, and using drama in a social-studies classroom; also planning and relationship-building visits to Libbey. Intensive residency at Libbey with 11th grade social-studies students toward creation of documentary theater project on citizenship. Workshops with high-school students involve training in interview techniques, developing theater skills, exploring theme, crafting interview questions, shaping the project. Course has blog site. Taught by Kate Collins.

Artists in Communities Training (ACT) Program

A professional development program to prepare artists for education and community settings. Develops skills in communication, lesson-planning, classroom and group management. Program intends to build a core of teachers and leaders for the Asian Arts Initiative. Two levels: ACT I includes workshops on educational models and strategies, a hands-on teaching placement and opportunities for future residencies. ACT II provides continued professional development opportunities for ACT alumni.

Community Arts Program

Works in partnership with community organizations, schools and artists in North Philadelphia. University courses, field internships, after-school arts workshops, intergenerational forums and interdisciplinary community-based performances/exhibitions. University courses and field internships feed into ongoing collaborations with local arts organizations. A partner in the Community Arts & Literacy Network of North Philadelphia. Collaborates on program development with Art Sanctuary, the Asian Arts Initiative, Temple University's New City Writing Program and local schools.

Literacy, Community and the Arts: Theory into Practice

ED 169, created by ArtsLiteracy (ArtsLit) Project Founder Eileen Landay to involve undergraduate students in the process of researching and developing the Project to improve student literacy skills through the performing arts in area schools. Students read about theory and practice of literacy and the arts, research national and local initiatives, engage in arts activities and spend time in area classrooms working with local teachers and artists to draft curriculum materials to be used in summer and school-year programs. Open to Brown undergraduate and graduate students and ArtsLit artists and teachers.

ArtEscuela Internship

Internships in summer youth workshops in art for social justice. Intensive training around racism, sexism, classism, and sexuality, technical training, plus workshops on history and culture. Work includes workshops, all Esperanza events, reading/writing, outreach development, publicity, filing, cleaning and maintenance of Esperanza. Young people encouraged to apply.

Art and Environment

Multidisciplinary graduate and upper-division undergraduate studio/seminar course designed to increase awareness for the interactivity of studio artists and the environment. Includes readings, presentations, guest lectures, field trips and art making with accompanying critiques. ART 493D/593H – SPTP Art and Environment. Erika Osborne, instructor.

Summer Camp Sessions in Art and Social Responsibility

Nonprofit residential summer camp and community outreach network teaching youth ages 13-18 how the arts can be used to build social creativity and responsibility; founded by artist Jessica Holt on her Parkman, Wyo., ranch. Three sessions each summer, staffed by professional artists and arts educators in a variety of disciplines. Experiences in community-building, leadership training, natural and environmental education, career development and skill building in creative writing, visual art, and performance. Each session concludes with a major youth-led project. Also Education Intern Program, a multi-generational program for artists, youth development professionals, teachers, political and business leaders