Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts
Autor Mat Schwarzman Ilustrat de Keith Knighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2005
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grass-roots social change. It presents proven models of community-based arts programs, plus techniques, discussion questions, and plentiful resources.
Writer Mat Schwarzman directs the Crossroads Center at Xavier University, which trains youth leaders nationwide in community-based arts activism. He holds a PhD in transformative learning.
Graphic storyteller Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist, rapper, and hip-hop musician with two nationally syndicated comic strips.
Writer Mat Schwarzman directs the Crossroads Center at Xavier University, which trains youth leaders nationwide in community-based arts activism. He holds a PhD in transformative learning.
Graphic storyteller Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist, rapper, and hip-hop musician with two nationally syndicated comic strips.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780976605430
ISBN-10: 0976605430
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 200 B&W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 170 x 257 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: New Village Press
Colecția New Village Press
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 0976605430
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 200 B&W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 170 x 257 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: New Village Press
Colecția New Village Press
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
"Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts is a rich combination of life stories, curriculum ideas and insights about the importance of nurturing creativity to confront the difficult circumstances many people find themselves living in these days. Cartoonist Keith Knight ("The K Chronicles" and "(th)ink") and author Mat Schwarzman (Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community of New Orleans) crisscross the country profiling ten community-based arts projects that encourage people with little recognized power to share their perspectives, ideas and images with broader publics to effect change. Through the Village of Arts and Humanities in Northern Philadelphia, “Big Man” Maxton discovers his ability to make beautiful mosaic sculptures and kicks a 22-year addiction to drugs and alcohol. Big Man's personal recovery and public art inspire old timers and young children to collectively join the Village's efforts to transform their struggling neighborhood. The women of Mujer Artes in San Antonio, Texas, make ceramic altars to honor and raise awareness about the women murdered at the U.S.-Mexico border. Together the women of Mujer Artes build a valuable intergenerational learning community while bringing national attention to an issue often untouched by the media and public officials. While in college, Tom Hansell sees an Appalshop (Appalachian multimedia cultural organization) film about the people who live in coal mining regions. To him, "the film was like a good punk song—raw, strong and from the heart.” Shortly thereafter, Hansell moved to Whitesburg, Kentucky, to join Appalshop’s staff and made an award-winning documentary about the challenges and dangers of coal-haul trucking through narrow mountain hollers."
—Erica Kohl, CommunityArtsNetwork
"Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts: Ten Graphic Stories about Artists, Educators & Activists across the U.S. is an amazing educational collection of thousands of social change artists of varied, diverse backgrounds and locations. Committed to the concept of transforming communities through information as art, (or art as information), Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts is organized on the CRAFT principle. CRAFT is a conceptual map that stands for five territories of the community-based art process: Contact—"Cultivate trust, mutual understanding and commitment as a foundation for creative partnership." Research—"Gather information about the people, places and issues you are working with." Action—"Produce a new work of art that benefits the community." Feedback—"Spark community reflection, dialogue and organizing to spread the impact of the new work." And Teaching—"Pass on new community-building skills to others to sustain the impact" (p. xxv). Many amazing comic illustrations are quoted and reproduced in black and white in the chapters of Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts. The book ends with a list of resources, inspiring quotations, artist's profiles, and a Craft Activities Table that shows how "art, learning and social change take place in each of the CRAFT territories" (p. 159). The ideas of CRAFT began at the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, a teen program in Oakland, CA from 1994-2001."
—Nancy Lorraine, Midwest Book Review
—Erica Kohl, CommunityArtsNetwork
"Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts: Ten Graphic Stories about Artists, Educators & Activists across the U.S. is an amazing educational collection of thousands of social change artists of varied, diverse backgrounds and locations. Committed to the concept of transforming communities through information as art, (or art as information), Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts is organized on the CRAFT principle. CRAFT is a conceptual map that stands for five territories of the community-based art process: Contact—"Cultivate trust, mutual understanding and commitment as a foundation for creative partnership." Research—"Gather information about the people, places and issues you are working with." Action—"Produce a new work of art that benefits the community." Feedback—"Spark community reflection, dialogue and organizing to spread the impact of the new work." And Teaching—"Pass on new community-building skills to others to sustain the impact" (p. xxv). Many amazing comic illustrations are quoted and reproduced in black and white in the chapters of Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts. The book ends with a list of resources, inspiring quotations, artist's profiles, and a Craft Activities Table that shows how "art, learning and social change take place in each of the CRAFT territories" (p. 159). The ideas of CRAFT began at the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, a teen program in Oakland, CA from 1994-2001."
—Nancy Lorraine, Midwest Book Review
Notă biografică
Mat Schwarzman directs the Crossroads Center in New Orleans that trains youth leaders nationwide in community-based arts activism. He holds a Ph.D in Transformative Learning from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was founder of the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts in Oakland, an arts-based youth development program and chair of the Arts & Social Change Program at New College of California. Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist & rapper. His two nationally-syndicated comic strips, "The K Chronicles" and "(th)ink." have appeared in publications worldwide, including Salon.com, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. Weekly, and the Funny Times. He has released five books and his band, the Marginal Prophets, won a 2004 California Music Award for their semi-conscious hip-hop album, "Bohemian Rap CD"Author
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IF YOU HAVE DREAMS TO SHARE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change. It presents proven models of community-based arts programs, plus techniques, discussion questions, and plentiful resources. "Cartoons as an educational tool, at last! Here's an inspired book of true stories, written in the language of comics, which graphically conveys the struggles and artistic triumphs of community activism."
--Eric Drooker Illustrator/activist and author of graphic novels Flood! and Bloodsong "This book gets it. The Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts conveys a holistic understanding of social change in the natural form of edutainment. A must-have for young artists."
--Carlton Turner Regional Development Director, Alternate ROOTS "By the time they finish this entertaining and inventive book, beginners will become pros. And a whole new wave of community-based artists should be revving up and getting down to work."
--Lucy R. Lippard Author of Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change "High school principals take note: this is an ideal manual for promoting high-level learning - how to use what you have learned to make a difference. It offers a process for activating young people by tapping into the creativity that resides within us all."
--Tom Tew Founding Principal, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Graphic storyteller Keith Knight is an award-winning cartoonist, rapper, and hip-hop musician with two nationally syndicated comic stripes, "The K Chronicles" and "(th)ink." Author Mat Schwarzman mentors youth leaders nationwide in community-based arts education. He holds a PhD in Transformative Learning and directs the Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community in New Orleans.
Descriere
Lively training manual for community-based arts featuring graphic stories of inspiring artists and activists.