Graduate Project

Building community: socially engaged art and arts education

Art education and Socially Engaged Art as a bridge toward community building is an effective method to unite various populations of people in a multicultural and globally connected region. I compare the roles art education and Socially Engaged Art can play in supporting mental and physical health in communities, and in connecting people together in social contexts. I examine qualitative research from Northern Californian educational and community meeting sites. Artists can make art that advocates for the underprivileged and they can build bridges among community members. Art is a source of interaction that artists can use to build authentic and meaningful relationships, strengthening the ties of the people in the U.S. who desire to create an ethical and moral democratic paradigm. Using art as a source of community building can be a successful, peaceful, and powerful method of a nonviolent protest.

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