Theater Arts 351: Field Internship in Community Arts

Faculty: Dr. William Yalowitz
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Spring 2002

This course is an experiential introduction to Community Arts, focusing on artist/community collaborations and community-based art education.  Community Arts projects bring artists together with people of a community of location, spirit, or tradition, to create art that is based in the life of that community.  The project for this year will be the production of Eminent Domain, a community-based arts event focusing on the history of a neighborhood adjacent to Temple’s main campus, centered around the Church of the Advocate.  In this partnership-learning community arts course, students will help to create this production, working closely with community residents and organizations and with artists, gaining skills in hands-on community arts processes:  local research, arts education, design and rehearsal, performance and installation. The course is grounded in Community Arts theory, growing out of the fields of Public Art and Performance Studies.