Community‐Based Art Making: Creating Spaces for Changing the Story

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (165) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Shauna Butterwick ◽  
Jan Selman
Keyword(s):  
Art Making ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Art

scholarly journals Dolls4Peace Memorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochele Royster
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Art ◽  
School Communities ◽  
Community Based Art ◽  
The City

This community/art based participatory research project encompassed communal art making practices (art as therapy) to build community, heal and resist systemic oppression and community violence, as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. Using an ecological model, participants engaged in community-based art therapy to build and heal communities impacted by gun violence. This "Doll Project" developed as a grassroots approach to arts-based social change—an ongoing cycle of creation, reflection and action with the hope to create a wave of healing and understanding through impacted Chicago communities. This process was intended to engage communities and embody the use of creativity to shift power and flatten hierarchies, largely by building up leadership of those most impacted by violence. The art of doll making was used to memorialize victims of gun violence in the city in record-high years of murders, while simultaneously creating a memorial of resistance, and initiating community-based adaptive change practices for social equity, connectedness, and liberation. Two questions are highlighted by this research: How does gun violence impact school communities within largely isolated, marginalized urban communities? How can we best support those who witness and survive gun violence?

“There Was No Spartacus Here”: Norma Montoya and Art as Abeyance in the Estrada Courts Mural Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Us Southwest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Based Art ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Material Conditions

The social processes that link collective art making to social movement activism enable community-based art making to serve as a key mechanism for art-based community making. Chicana/o mural art has been an important register of ordinary people’s self-active creativity, of their determination to create new democratic social spaces and new social identities capable of effecting social change based on egalitarian principles. When they are not painting on walls, mural artists hold various jobs and fulfill diverse roles as teachers, community organizers, and unofficial archivists. They do their work in solidarity with all aggrieved groups, especially young people who confront unfavorable material conditions in their neighborhoods. The collective mural-making practices of artists in the Chicana/o mural movement throughout the US Southwest during the 1970s offer an important focal point for understanding the practice and promise of intergenerational transfers of knowledge, collective art making, and self-active creativity not directly controlled by powerful institutions and social groups.

Breaking Bars: Community-Based Art Therapy Mural Project

Art Therapy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
Elizabeth DelliCarpini
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Art
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