4/24 Daniel Banks: Leaving a Community Notes

Here are some of the components of "leaving a community" from Luis, Molly, and myself:

• Feedback, from both the practitioners and the community
• multiple forms/levels: written, verbal, drawings, ect.
• finding the most appropriate form within the community itself

• Evaluation
•  Successful or unsuccessful?
• Did this follow 'what success looks like?" from before even entering said project?
• Can there even be evaluation? (if the project ended or is to be continued)

• Sustainability (if any)
•  Will there be a community appointed person to continue the project? 
• or, will there be a person who stood out during the process who will become a pin-pointed person to maintain communication with?
• If it was a one-time project, was it documented to be remembered?

• Reflection:
• Similar to previous: was it documented?
• Was it successful? Can it be evaluated?
• How can this be reflected upon?

• Acknowledgement-Thanking each Other
• Everyone involved - community and practioners
• Respecting the traditions of appreciation in a community

• Collective Meaning Making
• A culminating event to celebrate an end of a project, or the practitioners involvement with the project if it is ongoing
• This can include the acknowledgement/reflection aspects as well

This is what I have from our large page of fun colored notes. Hope everyone is having a good week and charging through these last few weeks. We can do it! <3

Notes from workshop with Daniel Banks 4/24

Entering a community:

Questions to consider:

• How do you prepare to enter a community?
• How do you begin to forge meaningful, insightful relationships in the community? How long will that take?
• How do you promote an atmosphere of equality and inclusion?
• How do you establish a pace that allows for organic progress?
• How long do you need to participate in the community before beginning your work?

Things to remember:

• Do your research, but be open to learning more from people than books once you arrive.
• You're not the expert! No matter how much research you do, community members will always have something to teach you.
• Find a cultural translator/informant/confidante/liason. You'll need someone to consult on cultural differences and miscommunications.
• Seek out/listen to multiple perspectives within the community. They may contradict, but they make up a single whole and should always be considered.
• Go with the flow! Let things be organic and flexible.
• This is difficult but important work- Stay positive!

Arts and Social Action Network (Social Media)

Mission

The UNM Arts and Social Action Network creates a link between the students at the Arts and Social Action program and the arts world. It’s meant to showcase the work of students, as well as to create a community to promote cultural engagement through arts and also to keep track of former students from the program. The network will also be able to share content across other social media platforms to reach other audiences as well.

Features

• Blog
  This will allow the users to share information and updates on the previous and ongoing projects. The most popular shows will be able to be shown at the front page.
• Media Gallery
  A gallery that will be able to showcase the work uploaded by students as well as their explanations/statements and more information to understand the piece.
• Social Links & Contact Info
  Displaying full contact info of the members of the community.
• Research Resources
  A list of select research sources with the help of UNM Libraries, the Center for Southwest Research and ALL.
• Webinar Capacity
  The site would frequently be able to host webinars to update art professionals and students about the current ways to culturally engage with communities, as well as explaining some current projects in detail.
• Podcasts
  The network would promote a series of podcasts produced at UNM as resources for practitioners.
• Facebook Page
  Full integration with Facebook for sharing work. The network will only have its own Facebook page to showcase a curated selection of pieces.
• Directory
  An easy way to locate practitioners within the network.

Gen-Ed Modifications needed (to be applied for paper submitted Wednesday)

Hi everyone,

I am writing to submit topics for discussion on the Gen-ed course. First post will be the items mentioned in class that need to be modified in my teams Gen-ed course description. Please feel free to add to this list as all feedback is helpful. I will insert that list below:

NOTE: The course's mission statement has been removed from the body of the paper and instead placed with the other previously started conversation about mission statements labled on the blog as Gen-Ed Course.  I put the mission that was in this paper there to keep the conversations about certain topics from going all over the place.


NOTE: List of Modifications Needed to apply to the Gen-Ed paper presented on Wednesday. Please feel free to add notes to this.

Gen-Ed Class:

NOTE: The first item Mellissa has a better way of describing but I will try here to get the conversation going. Melissa will you fill in what I’m missing.

1)How can we build a direct and strong collaboration with another department in UNM be specific about who and how

2)Investigate and incorporate the meaning of freshman learning communities

3)List of specific classes at UNM that already exist the ASAP Gen-ed Class would be able to pair with to execute a project that is based on campus. This would allow the ASAP Gen-ed class to practice facilitation/collaboration skills without having to leave campus. NOTE: While our off campus idea was great that it wasn't realistic.

4)List other ways (outside of item #1) students can execute a project on campus either together or with others on campus.

-For example with the GLBTQ Resource Center, UNM Saturday Theater Classes for Kids:(http://theatre.unm.edu/community/saturday_classes.php ); Organizations on campus


5)Work on the document wording to emphasis the course as a way to expose freshman to new ideas.

6)Mention that the professor is a Professor of Practice

ReplyDelete

Guiding Principles

Program Mission

General ED Course

Resources

VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA

• *John Maeda: Talk on Redesigning Leadership :)
• "What can we learn from artists and designers about how to lead?"
• -->"Artists and designers have a lot to teach us, I believe."
• http://www.ted.com/talks/john_maeda_how_art_technology_and_design_inform_creative_leaders.html
• *Ben Cameron: "The True Power of the Performing Arts"
• http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_cameron_tedxyyc.html
• "The means of artistic production and distribution have been democratized for the first time in all of human history" :)  "The number of arts participants... is exploding!"
• "Ultimately, we live in a world defined now not by consumption but by participation" :)
• "The rise of the professional hybrid artist... who works not primarily in the concert hall, but around women's rights, or human rights, or around global warming or around AIDS relief, or more" :) "...the work that he or she wishes to accomplish -cannot- be accomplised in the traditional hermetic arts environment" :)
• *Thelma Golden: "How art gives shape to cultural change"
• http://www.ted.com/talks/thelma_golden_how_art_gives_shape_to_cultural_change.html
• She's the curator of Studio Museum in Harlem
• "Understand the Art Studio as a Laboratory; Reimagining the Museum as a Think-Tank"
• "Curator as a Catalyst for Dialogue"
• "Ask: Can a museum be a catalyst in a community?"
• "Think about the role that artists can play in innovation and change."

TEXT & PDF

Arts & Civic Engagement Toolkit PDF

Switch Book

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning


NYTimes Article - Outside the Citadel


Out of the Spiritual Closet

Grant writing Help

Name Ideas

Category: Annual Convening

Category: Certificate

Category: Journal

Category: Research

Category: Fellowship

Category: Social Media

Category: Funding

Category: Timeline

1.     Phases

a.     Initial Development

b.     Presentation to department, decisions made

c.      Fundraising (ongoing)

d.     Organization, advertisement, intern(s) hired

e.     Faculty search

f.      Coordinator search

g.     Core class set up

h.     Certificate set up

2.     Timeline

a.     Spring 2013

                                               i.     Initial development

                                              ii.     Initial Proposal to CFA

b.     Summer 2013

                                               i.     Build institutional support for the program

c.      Fall 2013

                                               i.     Independent study student overseen by Molly chosen to continue development of program

1.     Certificate/Fellowship/Core Course

2.     Identifying list of national opportunities for future students

3.     Identify local opportunities

4.     Identify grant opportunities

                                              ii.     Faculty & coordinator search (late Fall)

                                            iii.     Grant writing

                                            iv.     Continue development of course and certificate

                                              v.     Begin making professional alliances both nationally and regionally

                                            vi.     Continue to build foundational network with partners on campus

d.     Spring 2014

                                               i.     Course listing sent to department

                                              ii.     Branding/Marketing/Advertising

                                            iii.     Visit classes to recruit students

                                            iv.     Faculty hiring committee interviews

e.     Summer 2014

                                               i.     Loose ends & completion of paperwork, etc.

f.      Fall 2014

                                               i.     Implementation of freshman-level core course with faculty and outside practitioner

                                              ii.     Begin planning Journal & Regional Gathering

                                            iii.     Begin planning Summer 2015 Community Workshop

                                            iv.     Begin development of Fellowship (both academic and arts evaluation)

                                              v.     Begin development of social media plan

g.     Spring 2015

                                               i.     Continue implementation of Journal & Regional Gathering

                                              ii.     Complete development of Fellowship

                                            iii.     Begin to advertise Fellowship

                                            iv.     Social media launch

h.     Summer 2015          

                                               i.     Community Workshops

                                              ii.     Award Fellowship

i.       Fall 2015

                                               i.     Fellowship and Certificate begins

                                              ii.     Fellowship in arts evaluation begins (research)

                                            iii.     Regional gathering

                                            iv.     Journal launch

Category: General Overview

1.     Objectives

a.     To train students in creative social action

b.     To connect practitioners and students

c.      To bring a unique, place-based program to UNM

d.     To enrich the social impact of all fields at UNM

e.     To connect people and programs already engaged with socail practice at UNM

f.      To strengthen and serve NM communities

g.     To create strong and healthy communities

h.     To serve NM’s community of people who want to become social practitioners

i.       To serve new and established practitioners by holding annual gatherings, publishing a journal, and by creating a social network

2.     Mission

a.     The mission is acted on by learning skills and then using those skills in real world projects. We are focusing on issues relating to the here and now – in NM/the southwest. Engaging with local cultures, communities and geographies. We are trying to connect groups of people at UNM that are already doing this and creating/catalyzing a new dynamic between these people.

3.     Project Description

a.     ASAP is creating a new program for the Fine Arts department that, when implemented, will train students in arts and social action, and bring together people and programs at the university who are already engaged with the arts and social action. This program will include a core class that all undergraduates can take to bring social practice and creativity to their field, a certificate program...

4.     Evaluation

a.     Fellowship for arts evaluation

                                               i.     Also: Are there programs that exist that we can contact to determine how they evaluated their programs for excellence?

Individual Projects

Please consider making it aesthetically interesting.  You might add photos or at least make it interesting to look at but very, very clear.  

Also, in revising your timeline please do so by dates. 

Title

Two sentences describing exactly what it is

Project Description:  What, How, Why, Impact You Are Hoping For

Note: Your why should be very strong and clear...why is this critically important? Try it in 2-3 sentences.
Note:  Try a 2-3 sentenc....here is one example, " this project will provide a platform for designers to form a dynamic collaborative community that deepens our capacity for engaged citizenry...."...I am just making this up but be strong in what you hope to achieve.

Bio:  Third person 1-2 paragraph.  If there are more than one of you please consider Creative Team or Team and put bios of key players. 

You may have a partner section if you have partners.  Include short bio of them.

Budget:  Income and Expenses need to equal one another.  Donated or in-kind under expenses is fine.  If you don't know where money is coming from that is ok.  Guess at amount and then put Pending.

Timeline:   Please do this by dates.  Example here-
March-June: 
Research and Development
Identification of Key Partners
Initial Interviews with Potential Artists

Contact Information:

Group Project ideas - Irene

From my perspective, the crux of the group project is this:

 

1.      The Cultural Leadership Core Course—offered across the UNM curriculum as a required core course for a variety of majors, including arts and business, co-taught by UNM faculty and community practitioners such as you. 

2.      The Arts Learning Laboratory (ALL) becoming a state-wide or regional organization in the field of Community Cultural Leadership, with a strong emphasis on participatory art-making.  This would mean starting a professional membership organization for this field, complete with academic research, a journal, an annual conference, and membership dues.  Fellowships could be offered for undergrad and grad students with ALL in this vein.

3.      Building Community Partnerships with appropriate, existing community arts organizations and offer credit for students who receive on-the-job training (i.e., Internships) with these organizations, similar to the internships currently offered through the Arts Management program.

That means, to my mind, CURRICULUM, RESEARCH/ACADEMICS, and PRACTICUM are all three key elements of this group project!

CCA's Center for Art & Public LIfe

Mission statement from the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts:

The Center's mission is to create community partnerships based on creative practice that serve the college and the diverse population of Oakland, San Francisco, and beyond.

Our programming is woven across disciplines into the structure of the college and delivered through a variety of academic, professional, extracurricular, and experimental approaches.

The Center focuses on important issues in community development, service learning in arts education, new models of practice in community-based arts, and cultural diversity and youth development through the arts.

The Center's Mission

The Center for Art and Public Life accomplishes its mission in several unique ways:

• Working in partnership to help meet pressing needs of the community by providing creative materials, labor, imagination, inspiration, and educational resources
• Enriching the CCA student and faculty experience through creative work in the community
• Developing models for integrating reciprocal, community-based learning into formal education for artists, architects, and designers nationwide

Membership Ideas

Irene’s suggestion: Have there be a regional association to grant membership to practitioners


Look at Arizona’s Pima Arts Council

Proposal Example

Molly’s thought process of a proposal (to serve as an example):

• Project: Creative Cultural Leadership (Look up Ken Foster from UCLA)
• Needs (Why?)
• Goals (What will success look like?)
• Core Values (how will our program be different from others?)
• Programs: part of ALL
• course or set of courses
• convening (harnessing the university’s power to convene)
• social media (ways to integrate cross-sector networks/disseminate info)
• trainings for trainers by staff/students, providing funded fellowship
• low-residency program?
• Key outcomes (our plan)
• Strategic plan (proposal)
• Funding (budget)
• Staffing-Operations (one prof., one part-time coordinator)
• Timeline
• Key Partnerships

Arts Learning Lab (ALL)

What is ALL and why and how should we include them as a research “arm” (call Mary Ann for more details).

ALL Mission (from website)

UNM’s College of Fine Arts exists in a unique crucible of time, place, and culture. We encompass twenty-two federally recognized Pueblos, Tribes, and Nations; the history of the Camino Real; a vibrant contemporary arts scene; and national centers of innovation for science, defense, and energy. In this fertile environment, along with UNM’s designation as a Carnegie Very High Research institution, our high Hispanic enrollment (33%) and one of the highest percentages of Native American students in the nation (12%), we are uniquely situated to explore a new pedagogy for the arts that is innovative, culturally-inclusive, and of the highest artistic merit.

The College of Fine Arts embraces and reflects the multiple contexts in which we live. Over the past two years, we have been engaged in a deep and rigorous discussion about what an arts education really means – what it should include, how it influences our students, how our unique communities influence us, and how we can influence the world into which our students graduate.

The result of this introspection is the creation of the Arts Learning Laboratory (ALL) – a new model for arts education that breaks down traditional academic structures and invites the outside world into the College of Fine Arts to engage in a powerful collaborative learning model and a far-reaching redefinition of arts pedagogy.

This new model will:

• Research, develop and implement an innovative curriculum incorporating a diverse set of geographic, disciplinary, racial, and cultural perspectives. One of the key objectives of the curriculum will be the incorporation of a range of voices through community- and project-based educational experience.

• Train Arts graduates to make productive contributions to contemporary economic and cultural life through a combination of rigorous arts skills, sensitivity to diverse perspectives and fluency in interdisciplinary discourse.

• Institute a curriculum that provides a project-based educational experience that immerses students in discovery learning in varied cultural and economic communities.

• Increase the cultural diversity of the University of New Mexico through direct engagement with professional artists, scholars and communities from a range backgrounds locally, nationally and internationally.

• Expand the environmental component of arts pedagogy by collaborating with colleagues in the sciences to place students in direct contact with a wide range of local, national and international ecosystems and to explore the notion of “place” as a concept for exploration and learning.

Questions about ALL:  How is information/research distributed/disseminated?

How can we help them re-communicate what ALL is?

Heart of the Matter

Heart of the Matter (from Molly’s email and discussion in class about what would make this program vital)

What is at the heart of the UNM Proposed Project in Creative Cultural Leadership/Arts and Social Action (Whatever We Call It)

• Place of Exchange
• Learning Community: student, community, faculty, professionals, staff…
• Mentorship (excellence)
• Support for practice (how we support practice)
• Interdisciplinary
• Legitimacy (what makes it a great program that attracts people)
• Social capital for everyone
• Explorative mindset, reflection (core principles and values..what else?)
• Evaluation
• Capacity building (what tools, skills, capacities do people need?)
• Attracting Professional Creatives as Collaborators
• Balance:  creative practice, collaboration, personal and collective reflection
• Collaboration Opportunities and Collaborative Leadership
  Collaborative Meaning Making
• Social Change Analysis, Intention
• Reciprocal Benefits: Between Education Institution and Community
• Reframe Artists as Leaders/practice what we preach/be the change
• Vital Research and Dissemination

Important Questions

• What is the social value of what we’re doing?
• What is at the heart of our efforts?
• What will a successful program/project look like in 5 or 10 years?
• Reciprocity - how can our program ensure benefits for the educational institution and the larger community?

What’s unique about NM (why here?)

-rich cultural history of tension and harmony
-rural/strong connection with the land/agriculture
-historic destination for art collectors
-attractive to international artists for creative inspiration

Keywords

• community arts
• public art
• social practice
• relational art
• creative cultural development 
• arts and social action/change

Research and Development Group (formerly Marketing, and still including that component)

Justin, Luis, Tori, Melissa

Notes from the Research and Development Group can go here.


Contact Linda Burnham (Otis College of Art and Design in CA) and Arlene Goldfarb (Author of New Creative Communities) about university programs in this area.

Perhaps make a template for putting in the verbiage that communications gets to you

Curriculum Group

Peggy, Abby, Liz, Jennifer

Notes from the Curriculum Group can go here.


Contact Linda Burnham (Otis College of Art and Design in CA) and Arlene Goldfarb (Author of New Creative Communities) about university programs in this area.

Could make a sample guide of workshops and classes

Initial Ideas 
Curriculum Ideas 

Other programs:

• Michigan State University- Art & Activism, Socially Engaged Art & Social Practice
• Michigan State University 
• Otis Public Practice-College of Art and Design. 
• Notes
• Otis Projects
• Otis Program Summary
• Otis BFA Community Arts Engagement
• Otis BFA Photo ACT - Teacher Credentials
• Otis BFA Painting Minor ACT Teacher Credentials
• Otis MFA Info
• Portland State University- Art and Social Practice-Contemporary Art Practice  
• Portland State 
• Portland State MFA 
• UC San Diego Socially Engaged Program  
• UC San Diego MFA 
• UC San Diego PhD
• UC Santa Cruz Public Art Program.
• UC Santa Cruz

Communication Group

 Irene, Noel, Ian

Notes from the Communication Group can go here.

Email addresses

Below is our email list:


 Victoria Elizabeth Bell <tbell93@unm.edu>,
 Abby Boling <aboling@unm.edu>,
 Melissa Maree Gabaldon <mmgabal@unm.edu>,
 Elizabeth Shores <eshores@unm.edu>,
 Irene Loy <ireneloy@unm.edu>,
 Justin Shipler <jshipler@unm.edu>,
 Ian Kerstetter <itkerste@unm.edu>,
 Luis Acoltzi <acoltzi@unm.edu>,
 Noel Chilton <nchilton@unm.edu>,
 Peggy Keilman <pkeil@unm.edu>,
 Jennifer Michael <jennalee@unm.edu>,
 Molly Sturges <molly@littleglobe.org>,
Elizabeth Shores <elizabeth.a.shores@gmail.com>

Recordings

Abby's Recordings from February meeting with Dean Pinder

Recording #1 is more brain storming before meeting with Dean Pinder:

https://soundcloud.com/abbyboling/molly-class-1of3-preparing-to

Recording #2 is our meeting with Dean Pinder:

https://soundcloud.com/abbyboling/molly-class-3of3-after-meeting

Recording #3 is class discussion and reflection after meeting with Dean Pinder:
https://soundcloud.com/abbyboling/molly-class-3of3-after-meeting