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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Community Arts"”.
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Community Arts as an act of praxis and resistance.
The focus of the study is to examine how community arts acts as a dynamic catalyst for uncovering multiple ways of knowing, and for naming and confronting power relations. A commitment to social justice and a firm belief in the power of community arts, to engage people’s hearts and spirits through …
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Gathering the landscape : a community arts center on Lookout Mountain
With a tape measure and a pad of newsprint, to document, understand and re-present a natural place was the first goal of this thesis. From this understanding a new built presence, a redefinition of the site, is sought, to gather its essential properties and bring them close. This thesis aims at …
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A Community Arts and Science Center for the city of St. Paul, Minnesota
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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An artist-educator's role in community arts : integrating people of diverse backgrounds and ages
This research focuses on teaching methods in community arts programs and projects integrating diverse people through collaborative work. Through giving "Art of Japanese Calligraphy" Workshops, I developed my teaching method focusing on creativity of personal expression through collaborative work. …
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NON-CREDIT COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMS: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THREE PROGRAMS WITHIN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
The purpose of Non-credit community arts programs: A comparative case study of three programs within research universities is to examine the perceptions of the various stakeholders of non-credit community arts programs to determine the perceived benefits received by all stakeholders from the …
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A Community Arts Advocacy Group and Its Educational *Policies, Actions and Activities: A Case Study
The direct significance to arts educators is in how groups like ACI can create connections within a community between (a) arts groups; (b) arts groups and schools; and, (c) between the community, arts groups and the schools. ACI also showed an ability to secure unique sources of funding for arts …
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Transformation: 1908 Schoolhouse
… can be transformed and given a new life as a community arts center in marion, virginia. existing geometry, structure and openings are examined in order to design a project which integrates old and new elements. the design strives to create indoor and outdoor gathering spaces that promote …
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Analysing collective action: intersections of power, government and resistance
… of work encompasses outputs that are focused on community development, community arts, youth work and social movement praxis. These fields of praxis are understood as constituting a vital part of a variegated and differentiated Irish civil society and, while acknowledging their specificities, the …
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Participating in Radical Visual Sociology: Supporting housing activism through gentrification and displacement research
This thesis examines whether participatory arts practices can be deployed in changing urban contexts without getting co-opted into that change and, instead, help to resist its uneven aspects. It presents a participatory arts and research project which responds to the politics and aesthetics of 21st …
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The mediation and facilitation of a ‘living' landscape through the musical arts within the Clanwilliam Arts Project
The Clanwilliam Arts Project, situated in Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa, is a community arts initiative that has become a platform for many artists, scholars, and students. Gaining access to the town creates an opportunity to engage with the town's culturally rich history, knowing that …
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
… of spectatorial relations which may inform community-based media education programmes. Central to such a formulation is a post-structuralist notion of the subject operating within gendered power relations. The thesis concludes with a detailed evaluation of a media education course for women …
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Lifelong learning in the arts : policy and practice in Ireland
… investigate the distinctive role played by the arts in effecting a cultural shift in the provision of lifelong learning. It will seek to bring a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the part played by the arts in giving people an authentic share in society. 'ne arts', reflected in …
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Community Support for Visual Arts Programs: Artist-in-Residence in a K-6 Elementary School
<p>A sustainable plan for arts education is not allocated in the operating costs of many elementary school districts. Arts education is becoming expendable, as budgets become tighter and emphasis is placed on test scores in accountable subject areas. High stakes testing, pre-identified supposed …
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Drama praxis : Rural arts workers and lifelong learning : a phenomenological study
… describe the experiences of a specific group of arts workers in an isolated rural community in the South West of Western Australia. These participants have all worked in the community as arts workers for an extended period of time. Through phenomenological research, the telling of these workers …
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The Doll Project As A Liberatory Art Intervention For Conscious Raising And Trauma Relief In A Chicago Marked By Violence
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This community/arts based participatory research project encompassed communal art making practices (art as therapy) to build community, heal and resist systemic oppression and community violence; as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. Participants …
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Exploring the Implications of Community Mural Arts: A Case Analysis of a 'Groundswell' Mural Project
Groundswell, a New York-based nonprofit community arts organization, creates high quality public art with youth and artists throughout the five boroughs of the City. This study examines how the nonprofit utilizes mural making, a potentially democratic art form, to provide opportunities for …
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Designing a moment in time : First Night and Boston's public spaces
… First Night's programming to become dominated by community arts groups and youth artists rather than professional artists and performers. I frame this discussion by profiling other cities' First Night celebrations and several of Boston's other ephemeral events.
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Ensemble cast: filling pedagogical gaps in theatre education with school and community partnerships
… Child Left Behind’s legacy is the corrosion of arts education in the United States. When the 2002 education law's cast list of core subjects was posted on the walls of our nation, arts education did not make the cut, while reading and mathematics took leading roles. Instructional time and funds …
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