a project about creative community building

8/2/2019 A Project About Creative Community Building

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CommunityPlanning Building - Development


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ArtExpresses

Communicates

RepresentsCreates

Celebrates

meanings

feelings

awareness

appreciation

Vision


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Community

Engages

Unites

Brings people together

Supports

Builds relationships


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The process of art-making:

a powerful tool for community buildingOrganization

Communication

Dialogue

Listening

Negotiation process

Facilitation

Cooperation

Problem-solving

Decision making process

Creative Thinking


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Short term project:Collaborative Art Exhibition

Goals:- To connect community members through the

experience of arts- To address an issue about the community of BarHarbor

- To change perspectives about art and art-making


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Issues in BH community Affordable housing prices statistics about population

flow examination of housing assistance programs Transportation examination about past and actual

services accessibility

Economical diversity assessment of workforce participation - job market - business

Local food consumption - awareness Intergenerational connections Community integration -year round residents - summer

residents - summer workers tourist college studentsOr just celebrate community!


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Specific actions - Contact potential partnersRuth Eveland (Jessup Public Library director)Mary Lyman (community artist and educator)Emily Bracale (artist and educator)Lelania Avila (community activist and artist)Stanley Harmon (Town of Bar Harbor Treasurer)Ron Beard (Community Facilitator)

Island Artisans (Artists Association)Schools TeachersMore community artists


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Local Artist: Mary LymanCollaborative art craftworkshopsMask making can be avery positive workshopthat can lead to theexpression of identity


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Local Artist:Russell DAlessioExpression ofsense of place


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Specific Actions: Mapping the art-related spaces in town

Jessup Public LibraryTown of Bar Harbor Municipal Building

Village GreenConners Emerson School GymMDI High school Gym


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Long term projectBar Harbor Cultural Center

Goals:Creation of a physical space in partnerships between school, businessand the wider community

Where people will benefit from arts programsPolicy making from the productResearch more about:

People engaged in art communityDemographics of art practicesHistory of creative projects

Map of existing and desired conditionsIdentify potential public and private funding sources.


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The Young Picasso ProjectLearning how to develop a youth community art center on Mount Desert Island

Youth community art center

Non profit organization managed by young people as

active citizens of change.

To strengthen Mount Desert Island Communities byempowering our youth with opportunities to develop

and practice: critical thinking, creativity, and self-

expression through experiences in the creative arts.

Art can empower and bring people together in endless

ways

Caleb Davis, COA 2002


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Maine Alliance for Arts Education MAAE - www.maineartsed.org

BCTA (Building Community Through the Arts)

LINC-Arts (Learning In Community)

MATF (Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship)

Maine Arts Commission - mainearts.maine.gov

Community Arts Program Grant

and more!

Schoodic Arts For All

Winter Harbor

schoodicartsforall.orgCelebrating Arts and Culture

in Down East Maine
http://www.maineartsed.org/http://mainearts.maine.gov/http://schoodicartsforall.org/http://schoodicartsforall.org/http://mainearts.maine.gov/http://www.maineartsed.org/


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Local Artist: Lelania Avila

Use of poems and positive phrases as therapeutic community art

a project about creative community building

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