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
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