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
- 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
- UC San Diego Socially Engaged Program
- UC Santa Cruz Public Art Program.
From Peggy:
ReplyDeleteWHY ADD NEW PROGRAMS
Before considering the addition of a general ed course with a title of ASAP and a fellowship and/or certificate program, we maybe should take stock of where the Department of Fine Arts is today in terms of resources, influence, sustainable practices, etc. First there seems to be almost no cross-pollination of ideas within the disciplines of the department. Music majors and their professors are one group, arts history majors another group and studio groups in a similar situation. Communication is marginal across the groups and yet all could profit from more interaction. Additionally there also seems to be some lack of cooperative endeavors even within some of the disciplines. Something needs to change as this Department will not get substantial funds from the University like engineering or business. These departments are seen as relevant to society in a way that the arts are not. Yet we live in a era where creative solutions must be found to a host of problems related to the climate, demographic changes within our population, poor education for many children, water issues, etc. In additon the Department of Fine Arts does not make use of this area's strengths that are unavailable in many areas of the United States. We have among us indigeous populations that are spiritual and artistic communities. Many people travel just to visit with these groups, to buy their art in Santa Fe and elsewhere. We also are in a area with a Western outlook which the arts does not seem to embrace. There are also Hispanic traditional arts that are not a major focus. Could this be due to our belief that New York is where things are happening? We do have land arts and ceramics, but are not capitalizing on this. The Arts Learning Lab seems to be nothing more than a list of courses that involve some interaction with the greater local community. Actually I felt that ALL was just a slick website. The ALL could have been an open laboratory for individuals to explore ideas.
WHY ADD NEW PROGRAMS, part 2 (from Peggy)
ReplyDeleteTo me what is valuable about studying the arts is how smart the artists are. This is a group that continually must solve problems as the outcome has to work in a very refined way. Artists have often been leaders in society for change whether with revolutionary posters in areas with undeducated populations or in the introduction of a new wave of thinking that contradicts or opposes current thought on an issue, eg. Artists are thought leaders! As a society we usually have not identified artists in this way perhaps because society resists change so we talk about artists as starving, etc. It is rare to see artists commenting on the current state of affairs in society. Instead we get talking heads without the breadth of most artists and their thinking.
Our current proposals seek to address these issues by bringing to the forefront the idea of an artist as a leader in society as a whole. The proposals teach others what artists have to give to society. Currently we need creative solutions to many prolems and the artist's way of thinking can teach others to look outside their particular discipline. Most professional disciplines have a set of rules, knowledge, etc as the way to approach problem solving in their discipline, but artists have to learn new things often just to complete a project. Also most professional fields limit who can contribute to the discipline through license requirements. Artists working in communities brings back the notion that all can contribute. As a graphic example of this limited way of problem solving, my community of Corrales is beginning to put in place a community sewer project, but a fellow with 35 years of local experience said that no one would listen to him as he had no degree. Clearly experience does not count, yet this fellow knew firsthand what problems arise with different solutions. Artists facilitating in communities could discover what local knowledge brings to bear on a problem often attempting to be solved by political leaders without this local knowledge.