Getting in on the act [Recurs electrònic] : how arts groups are creating opportunities for active participation / Alan S. Brown and Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard, in partnership with Shelly Gilbride
Series: Focus (James Irvine Foundation)Publication details: San Francisco The James Irvine Foundation, 2011Online resources: Summary: This report and case studies of illustrative projects help provide a better understanding of how people are engaging in the arts, and of how arts organizations are enabling this involvement. Researchers at WolfBrown investigated active arts participation across the arts sector in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, learning from more than 100 organizations currently engaging in participatory arts. The report helps address many of the concerns that arts organizations may have in embracing participatory arts practices and illuminates the various trends in the field that are responsible for this shift. This report also presents the “Audience Involvement Spectrum,” a helpful new model for understanding various levels of arts engagement. (Font: Prefaci) Arts participation is being redefined as people increasingly choose to engage with art in new, more active and expressive ways. This movement carries profound implications, and fresh opportunities, for the nonprofit arts sector. How can arts institutions adapt to this new environment? Is participatory practice contradictory to, or complementary to, a business model that relies on professional production and consumption? How can arts organizations enter this new territory without compromising their values or artistic ideals? This report aims to illuminate a growing body of practice around participatory engagement (with various illustrative case studies profiled at the end) and dispel some of the anxiety surrounding this sphere of activity. The discussion begins by placing participatory practice in the context of the larger cultural ecology, with consideration of the role of the Internet in fostering interactivity. A synopsis of the individual and community benefits associated with active participation is provided, as well as an analysis of the symbiotic relationship between participatory arts practice and attendance. Without greater attention to community-based creative expression, the report suggests, arts groups devoted solely to a consumption model of program delivery will slowly lose ground in a competitive marketplace. (Font: Sumari)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Foreword / Josephine Ramirez -- Summary -- Introduction: The new landscape of arts participation ; How participatory arts fits in the cultural ecology -- Embracing the new ecology -- Participatory arts in practice -- Overview of Case Studies: 1. Community-Sourced arts events: Building Institutional Relevance ; 2. Community-Activated Theatre Programs: “Acts of Collective Will” ; 3. Participatory Arts Events: Celebrating the Artist in Everyone ; 4. Storytelling events: building community identity ; 5. Virtual activation: pioneering the new frontier of active arts ; 6. Public dance events: activating the moving spirit and social camaraderie ; 7. Co-creation: curating unpredictable outcomes through participation ; 8. Community music-making: bringing together professionals and amateurs ; 9. Engaging civic values: building community vitality and public support for the arts 10. Participatory arts networks: achieving advocacy outcomes -- References and endnotes
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