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, thesis and outreach programs. 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 tudents 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.]

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. Plans being made for Training in Remote Communities.

Czech Republic: Arts, Community and Transition

Students spend four months in Czech Republic, based in Prague, exploring the role of the arts in Czech society today. Sixteen-credit course includes intensive Czech language study; interdisciplinary seminar on Czech history, politics, society, arts and culture, civil society, 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 and Saturday Scholars, Urban Missions , Arts in Youth and Community Development graduate program (which see). Service-learning components developed through CCAP's partnership with the academic departments of the college.

Art Education Community and Institutional Partnerships Project

Project pioneered the concept of Artist as Teacher, presents view of art educators as social agents. Prepares university Art Education students, Undergraduate and Graduate, to teach through school and community partnerships. Rich Web site illustrates students' projects in retirement communities, prisons, with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and people with chronic mental illness.

"Crossing Borders: Kentucky Journeys from Page to Stage"

Course's students work with community partners from Latino Community of Lexington and Operation Read (literacy program for adults) to develop oral histories of individual "journies" to Kentucky. Stories develop into performance pieces to tour local festival, horse farms, tobacco farms, community centers. Students function as full participants in project, incorporating skills as writers, actors and directors.

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.

The Arts of Citizenship Program

Program helps undergraduates work in guided teams with community partners in Ann Arbor and Detroit to create community-based drama and dance, radio documentaries, history exhibits, Web sites, curricula. Also major projects in "cultural partnership" with community organizations (ex: Underground Railroad Project with African-American museum).

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.

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, lengthy 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.

Community Artists Residency Training Series

(CARTS) artist-training program. Offers artists support, mentorship and the chance to work across disciplines. Mentor/Apprenticeship Model: Goal is to develop a network of trained artists who can plan, design, assess, mentor and communicate effectively about civically engaged art. Managed through partnership between office of Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University and Institute of Arts and Humanities Education.

Graduate Certificates

Kaplan Center for Educational Drama, established by the Creative Arts Team in 1993. Through CUNY's School of Professional Studies, the Kaplan Center offers three graduate-level certificate programs in Drama in the Classroom, The Theatre Teaching Artist, and Creating Theatre with Young People. Alexia Vernon, Manager of the Kaplan Center, 212.652.2820 or alexia.vernon@mail.cuny.edu.

Professional Development in Educational Drama

The Kaplan Center also offers a variety of noncredit workshops in Theatre for Youth and Community Development to teachers, teaching artists and youth development and community outreach professionals. Alexia Vernon, Manager of the Kaplan Center, 212.652.2820 or alexia.vernon@mail.cuny.edu.

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. 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), Luna Rosa Prison Writing Project (incarcerated women), PEN Prison Writing Project (correspondence with writers in prison). 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.

Cross-Disciplinary Arts in Community 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. The Art and Art Education Department's Community Arts Program works in partnership with community organizations, schools, and artists in North Philadelphia. The program develops and delivers university courses, after-school arts workshops, intergenerational forums, and inter-disciplinary performances and exhibits which are based on an exchange of knowledge and images between partners, to create art based on the lives and stories of North Philadelphia. Currently, university courses and field internships are offered which feed into ongoing collaborations with local arts organizations. Over the past three years we have created performances and installations that have garnered critical acclaim and enthusiastic local and city-wide audiences. We are a partner in the new Community Arts & Literacy Network of North Philadelphia, and collaborating 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, maintenance of Esperanza. Young people encouraged to apply.

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