Event Title
Moncho: Designing and Implementing the community-based art project
Location
Davis 217
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:15 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 2:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
The purpose of this project is to use community based art to channel the ostracized voices to the rest of society to facilitate dialogue in an inclusive environment. Community based art is the preferred medium since it aims to create art of, for, by the people. The project will celebrate the individual and collective. Using story circles we will delve into issues surrounding class, gender, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity. Together, we will identify issues and themes that we will explore in greater details, allowing for organic conversation to guide the awareness building. We have used the CRAFT model and Augusto Boals Poetics of the Oppressed as our primary guides to mold this simple community-based art initiative. CRAFT stands for: Contact, Research, Action, Feedback, and Teaching. This is a well-known and highly regarded structure for conceiving, structuring and facilitating democratic community based art projects. The project structure is simple enough that the mold can be replicated easily for other future projects by the participants.
Faculty Sponsor
Lauren Lessing
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1767
Moncho: Designing and Implementing the community-based art project
Davis 217
The purpose of this project is to use community based art to channel the ostracized voices to the rest of society to facilitate dialogue in an inclusive environment. Community based art is the preferred medium since it aims to create art of, for, by the people. The project will celebrate the individual and collective. Using story circles we will delve into issues surrounding class, gender, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity. Together, we will identify issues and themes that we will explore in greater details, allowing for organic conversation to guide the awareness building. We have used the CRAFT model and Augusto Boals Poetics of the Oppressed as our primary guides to mold this simple community-based art initiative. CRAFT stands for: Contact, Research, Action, Feedback, and Teaching. This is a well-known and highly regarded structure for conceiving, structuring and facilitating democratic community based art projects. The project structure is simple enough that the mold can be replicated easily for other future projects by the participants.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/412
Comments
Arts and Humanities Session