Community-based Art Education.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Students will spend two hours per week for 10 weeks (20 hours) at a community site engaged in studio-based service-learning activities. In this transdisciplinary course, students study theories of socially engaged art, community-based art education, service-learning and transformative learning as it applies to multigenerational, multicultural community settings. Using art as a call to action, a language that transcends, transgresses and transforms, students and community participants engage in arts-based narrative co-inquiry to co-create place-based oral, visual, written and performed narratives that express their personal voice, lived experiences, social, moral, cultural and political concerns toward the creation of healthy communities.