Developing Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art Programs

Developing Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art Programs
Author: Jessica L. DeShazo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442257296

What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that build community and engage civil society? Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art addresses these and other critical questions. It demonstrates how public art can build community unity, identity and cohesiveness. The focus of this original work is how cities engage their citizens through public art. What has been successful and what has failed? Through case studies of cities that have public art programs - some successful at citizen engagement others less so – the reader will learn how to design public art programs that build community.

Engagement in the City

Engagement in the City
Author: Leigh N. Hersey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-03-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1793633916

Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors - representing artists, art educators, and public administration scholars – the role of arts is explored as a contributing factor in strengthening communities. The book shows that the arts have the potential to positively impact a wide variety of development interests, including economic, education, health, social capital, and of cultural. The book provides strategies and techniques for implementing successful arts-based projects, whether it be through public art initiatives, service-learning opportunities, or the development or cultural districts. Cross-sectoral collaboration is a key in many of these projects, making the book beneficial for artists and community leaders who seek ways to work together to improve their cities.

Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art

Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
Author: Hersey, Leigh Nanney
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1522517286

Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including avenues in the fine arts. The Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art is a comprehensive reference source for emerging perspectives on the incorporation of artistic works to facilitate improved civic engagement and social justice. Featuring innovative coverage across relevant topics, such as art education, service learning, and student engagement, this handbook is ideally designed for practitioners, artists, professionals, academics, and students interested in active citizen participation via artistic channels.

Civic Arts Practices

Civic Arts Practices
Author: Lynn Ann Kalsched Osgood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN:

Within the planning profession, the arts and culture sector has been emerging over the past a decade as a vital component of urban and rural planning processes. Once considered to be only adjacent to the more central issues of housing, economic development, and infrastructure planning, the arts sector is now becoming an integrated part of each of these areas of practice. Planning frameworks most often incorporate arts and culture in the form of “discrete elements,” such as the creation of a public art piece, or the formation of a cultural district or performing arts center; however, this framework for how the arts can serve municipal development has changed rapidly within the past few years. Today, an emerging set of practices are starting to take shape where the arts and culture sector works in partnership with municipalities to co-produce projects around mutually understood goals. In this dissertation, I analyze this other dimension of professional planning practice, when arts professionals work in collaboration with municipal staff to further urban and rural development goals. This dissertation is structured in two parts. After contextualizing practices within the intersection of the planning discipline and the newly emerging field of creative placemaking, the first part of the research looks directly to practitioners to understand the broader set of practices that make up a subfield of emerging practices artists and planners work in direct collaboration to achieve mutual goals. Through a year-long Delphi process, a set of 50 professionals from the arts and planning sectors were interviewed and surveyed to find out how their projects came together, what the dynamics were between professionals from divergent backgrounds, and how each set of professionals viewed the effects of their work. After developing a broader understanding of the different dimensions of these collaborative practices, the second part of the research narrows the focus to look specifically at a three-year case study that focused on the specific issues of civic engagement and civic capacity-building that surround a particular municipal issue

Youth Civic Engagement and Local Peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

Youth Civic Engagement and Local Peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Ibrahim Natil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000422631

This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development, and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Youth engagement and contribution to civil society and local peacebuilding can play a crucial role in development; however, there is often a lack of effective engagement, policies, and opportunities for young people in policy and practice. This book analyses their experiences of civic engagement and community participation and the challenges they face, across diverse areas including youth empowerment, freedom of expression, mobilization, ideologies, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. Drawing on cases from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories, this book offers new insights on how youth not only are shaped by, but also react to policies, conflict, constraints, and challenges. The insights drawn from this interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers of civil society, youth, peacebuilding, and development, as well as to policymakers, donors, and NGO staff.

Transforming City Schools Through Art

Transforming City Schools Through Art
Author: Karen Hutzel
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807776602

This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective, contributors describe a positive, asset–based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban settings. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this innovative approach shows teachers how to use the cultural resources at hand to engage students in the processes of critical, imaginative investigation. Featuring personal narratives that reflect the authors’ vast experience and passion for teaching art, this resource: Offers a new vision for urban schools that reflects current directions of urban renewal and transformation. Highlights successful models of visual art education for the K–12 classroom. Describes meaningful, socially concerned teaching practices. Includes unit plans, a glossary of terms, and online resources. Contributors include Olivia Gude, James Haywood Rolling Jr., and Leda Guimarães. “This terrific, much–needed resource promises to become a classic in the field.” —Christine Marmé Thompson, Penn State University

Developing a Curriculum Model for Civically Engaged Art Education

Developing a Curriculum Model for Civically Engaged Art Education
Author: Sara Scott Shields
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000912590

This volume explores art as a means of engendering youth civic engagement and draws on research conducted with young people in the United States to develop a unique curriculum model for civically engaged art education (CEAE). Combining concepts from civics and arts education, chapters posit that artistic thinking, making, and acting form the basis for creative research into social and political issues which affect young people and are key to promoting civic participation. Focusing on critical, creative, and dynamic forms of youth cultural production inspired by local people, places, and events, the text demonstrates how educators’ curricular choices can engage students in researching social movements and arts-based activism. The authors draw from well-established areas such as arts-based research, civic engagement, and maker-centered learning to present their educational model through illustrative examples. Offering a timely consideration of the relationship between art education and civics education, this book will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of education, as well as arts and teacher research, and pre-service teacher education.

The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

The Creative Community Builder's Handbook
Author: Tom Borrup
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2006-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1618589148

Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete strategies for building on the unique qualities of your own community. Each strategy is illustrated by two case studies taken from a variety of cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across the United States. You'll learn how people from all walks of life used culture and creativity as a glue to bind together people, ideas, enterprises, and institutions to make places more balanced and healthy. These examples are followed in Part 3 with six steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects: 1. Assess Your Situation and Goals; 2. Identify and Recruit Effective Partners; 3. Map Values, Strengths, Assets, and History; 4. Focus on Your Key Asset, Vision, Identity, and Core Strategies; 5. Craft a Plan That Brings the Identity to Life; 6. Secure Funding, Policy Support, and Media Coverage. Detailed guidance, hands-on worksheets, and a hypothetical community sample walk you through the entire process. Each section includes additional resources as well as an appendix listing books, web sites, organizations, and research studies. By understanding the theoretical context (Part 1), learning from case studies (Part 2), and following the six steps (Part 3), you'll be able to build a more vibrant, creative, and equitable community.

Social Work with Latinos

Social Work with Latinos
Author: Melvin Delgado
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190684801

The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period since this text's initial publication has witnessed an increase in scholarship and new social-political-economic developments regarding this population group. Social Work with Latinos, Second Edition captures these advances and adds to the existing body of work in this area. In particular, this revised edition provides an up-to-date demographic profile; identifies the rewards and challenges for the development of social work interventions focused on Latinos; includes a conceptual foundation from which to develop social work strategies for outreach, engagement, service-provision, and evaluation; features a series of case illustrations to highlight how cultural competency/humility can unfold to better reach this population group; grounds the Latino experience within a social, economic, cultural, and political context; and provides recommendations for social work education, research and practice.