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Last updated: 4 June 2021
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 11 scheduled online seminars
Community based arts are a valuable tool for building strong communities and creating art works that are authentic and distinctive. There is also growing interest in the use of participatory art processes to enable new and dynamic relationships between artists and their audiences.
This unit addresses the knowledge and skills needed to engage diverse communities in arts projects, and manage community creative processes. The unit focuses on the design and management of art projects that enable collaborative and participatory processes. Topics include: the role of artists and facilitators; venues and facilities for community based arts; public art; arts based social enterprises; developing art strategies and policies; and evaluating community based art projects. The unit examines community based arts from the context of arts organisations, government and the community sector.
Appraise the use of different approaches and tools in the design of arts project that engage communities.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO2
Design community-based art projects that engage target communities
GLO5: Problem solving
ULO3
Synthesise a range of approaches to community based arts, drawing on personal practice, work and study.
ULO4
Contribute to an online community of learners and practitioners in the field of community based art.
ULO5
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
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