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Community Arts
Community art, also known as social art, community-engaged art, community-based art, and, rarely, dialogical art, is the practice of art based in—and generated in—a community setting. It is closely related to social practice and social turn. Works in this form can be of any media and are characterized by interaction or dialogue with the community. Professional artists may collaborate with communities which may not normally engage in the arts. The term was defined in the late 1960s as the practice grew in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia. In Scandinavia, the term "community art" more often refers to contemporary art projects. Community art is a community-oriented, grassroots approach, often useful in economically depressed areas. When local community members come together to express concerns or issues through this artistic practice, professional artists or actors may be involved. This artistic practice can act as a catalyst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Practice (art)
Social practice or socially engaged practice in the arts focuses on community engagement through a range of art media, human interaction and social discourse. While the term social practice has been used in the social sciences to refer to a fundamental property of human interaction, it has also been used to describe community-based arts practices such as relational aesthetics, new genre public art,abreu, manuel arturoWe Need to Talk About Social Practice artpractical.com, 6 March 2019 socially engaged art,Kester, Grant, “Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art,” ''Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985'', 2005 dialogical art, participatory art, and ecosocial immersionism.The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley, Duke University Press, 2023, p. 27 Social practice work focuses on the interaction between the audience, social systems, and the artist or artwork through aesthetics, ethics, colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Capital
Social capital is a concept used in sociology and economics to define networks of relationships which are productive towards advancing the goals of individuals and groups. It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity. Some have described it as a form of capital that produces public goods for a common purpose, although this does not align with how it has been measured. Social capital has been used to explain the improved performance of diverse groups, the growth of entrepreneurial firms, superior managerial performance, enhanced supply chain relations, the value derived from strategic alliances, and the evolution of communities. History While it has been suggested that the term ''social capital'' was in intermittent use from about 1890, before becoming widely used in the late 1990s, the earliest credited us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation art, installation, video art, video, performance art, performance, public art, photography, and Artist's book, art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as performance faculty at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Early life and education Having been involved with feminism since the late 1960s, Lacy attended California State University, Fresno in 1969, taking up graduate studies in psychology. There, Lacy and fellow graduate student Faith Wilding established the first feminist consciousness-raising group on campus. This led to her attendance in Judy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kuniholm
Paul Kuniholm is a Community arts, heritage-narrative public artist who creates art embodying sculptural objects,sculpture both fugitive and durable, art using digital material, wearable art Art intervention, intervention, video, Mural, mural art, and various time-based artwork that is exhibited in the Right of way (public throughway), public right-of-way, museums and other cultural venues internationally. References External ...
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JR (artist)
JR (; born 22 February 1983) is the pseudonym of a French photographer and street artist who began his career on the streets of Paris. His moniker is derived from his first name, Jean-René. He is known for flyposting large black-and-white photographic images in public spaces. Referring to himself as a ''photograffeur''—a portmanteau of "photographer" and the French word for graffiti artist—JR has described the street as "the largest art gallery in the world."Elizabeth Day"The street art of JR" ''The Observer'', 7 March 2010.Unattributed,Street Art" Tate Modern, accessed, 6 June 2016. His work often challenges widely held preconceptions and the reductive images propagated by advertising and the media." JR's work typically explores themes such as identity, freedom, and social participation.Excerpts from the book ''Women Are Heroes'' published by Alternatives, 2009. He gained early recognition for pasting photographic portraits on buildings and urban structures in Paris, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Jamieson
Karen Jamieson (born July 10, 1946) is a Canadian dancer, choreographer, and mentor located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is the founder and artistic director of Karen Jamieson Dance Company, a non-profit contemporary dance company formed in 1983. Today, Karen Jamieson Dance supports the practice, research, creation, and production of dance with a focus on legacy work, which includes the passing on of dance practices and ideas to emerging generations of artists through body transcription, work with scholars, mentorships, oral history, and archiving. In 2022, Karen Jamieson Dance launched its first oral history and archival research project entitle''Coming Out of Chaos'': A Vancouver Dance Story which looks at the impact of Jamieson's 1982 piece, ''Coming Out of Chaos'', on the emergence of contemporary dance in Vancouver from the 1960s to the present day. , Jamieson has created over 100 dance works with original scores by over 20 Canadian composers, and has perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Howard (artist)
Ruth Howard is a Canadian artist who creates arts and theatre projects with communities and has been called "a key figure in the Canadian Community Play movement". She was the founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre, from 2001 to 2022. Early life and education Ruth Howard was born in Durham England on April 29, 1957, to mother Antonie Howard (née Eber) and father Ian P. Howard, a renowned researcher in visual perception. She has younger twin brothers, Neil and Martin. In 1966, the family moved to Manhattan for a year and then to Toronto, Canada, which has remained Ruth's home-base ever since, although she has also lived and worked in many other places. She currently lives on Wards Island with her partner of many years, Stephen Cooper. They have three children: Shifra, Helah and Eli. Ruth studied at the Eastbourne College of Art and Design, at the University of Toronto where she obtained a BA Honours in English Literature and Drama, and at the National Theatre School of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company. The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop. Biography Early life The youngest of five children, Hooks was born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., to Mae Bertha (née Ward), a seamstress, and Edward Hooks, who had moved from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with their four other children, Bernice, Caroleigh, Charles Edward "Charlie", and James Walter "Jimmy". Named Bobby Dean Hooks at birth, Robert was their first child born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher (born 1967 in Santa Maria, California) is an American social practice and relational aesthetics artist and professor, living in Portland, Oregon. Biography Harrell Fletcher was born in 1967 in Santa Maria, California and attended Santa Maria High School. Fletcher received his B.F.A. in 1990 from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and his M.F.A. in 1994 from California College of the Arts (CCA). At CCA, Fletcher studied under Suzanne Lacy. In 1995, Fletcher completed an apprenticeship at UCSC at the farm, studying ecological horticulture. In 2007, Fletcher founded the Art + Social Practice Program in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University, where he is still on faculty. Projects His fellow CCA student Jon Rubin, and Fletcher collaborated for several years in the Bay Area following the completion of his M.F.A., and together creating ''Gallery Here'' in nearby Oakland. ''Gallery Here'' was in a vacant storefront in their Oakland neighborhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Crummy
Helen Crummy MBE (10 May 1920 – 11 July 2011) was a founder of the Craigmillar Festival Society, and served as the Organising Secretary for the group until 1985. Biography Helen Crummy was born in Leith, Helen Murray Prentice. She became one of the first residents in a new council housing estate at Craigmillar in 1931 when her family moved to the estate which became one of the poorest areas of Edinburgh. Her family were also neighbours of the family of Jack Kane, the first Labour Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Craigmillar Festival Society The Craigmillar Festival Society started in 1962, after she asked the headmaster of the local primary school if her son, Philip, could be taught to play the violin. He replied by telling her that it took the school all its time to teach these children "all three R's". Helen with the local mothers group decided to show how talented their children were and started The Craigmillar Festival which grew to gain international acclaim.Hannan, Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Capezzuti
Cheryl Capezzuti (born 1969) is an American artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who specializes in giant puppets and sculptures made from Lint (material)#Dryer lint, dryer lint. Early life and education Capezzuti grew up in Hampton, Pennsylvania. She originally studied architecture at Penn State University, but switched majors to integrative learning, integrative arts. She also earned a masters in visual arts education, art education at Penn State. Career and art work Capezzuti is best known for her giant puppets and sculptures made from dryer lint. Giant puppets After graduation, Capezzuti was an assistant from puppeteer Sara Peattie of Boston, Massachusetts. After returning to Pittsburgh in 1996 she made a giant puppet for the Pittsburgh First Night parade in 1998. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2021, she formed a "Giant Puppet Dance Club" on YouTube. Puppets were sanitized and sent to people. The people then danced in them in their yards so other people passing by could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
