Museum and Community Outreach

Museum and Community Outreach /op 2+1

Teacher: Jóo Júlia (Simon Andrea)

Aims:

The course will help students understand the key terminologies, evaluate participative processes in different art sectors, analyse the relationship between community and artist and the roles they play, and lead them through the basics of collaborative project design. The course provides an introduction to collaborative community art projects by exploring the perspectives and roles of the artist / educator and the community.

Topics:

1. The meaning of community

2. The forms and methods of community building

3. The tools of social communication

4. The role of art in the digital era

5. From prejudice to discrimination, unfolding the term „disadvantaged”

6. The different forms of participations in art

7. Collaborative art practices

8. The artist, the community and the institution

9. Evaluating collaborative art practices

10. Social problems: visibility, message and media

11. Evaluating collaborative art projects

12. Steps of planning a collaborative art project.