{"id":4210,"date":"2013-09-16T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2022-02-12T02:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T02:14:30","slug":"community-arts-and-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/community-arts-and-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Community, Arts and Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4210\" class=\"elementor elementor-4210\" wpc-filter-elementor-widget=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f5d8d35 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f5d8d35\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f321e2\" data-id=\"4f321e2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-685e11a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"685e11a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4211 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/community.jpg\" alt=\"little figurines\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/community.jpg 274w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/community-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Looking at the mission statements of arts organizations, you see references to community engagement. The term can have many different interpretations across organizations and disciplines. I found a helpful definition in a recent (September 13, 2013) blog post by\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.artsusa.org\/2013\/09\/13\/reframing-the-relationship-community-arts-and-engagement\/#more-21714\">ArtsBlog<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It referred to definitions that I found simple and clear:<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><strong><span class=\"blue\">Community<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0: refers to individuals and organizations who are related through arts education delivered in a local community<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><strong><span class=\"blue\">Engagement<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0:\u00a0describes an active, two way process where the arts organization motivates others to become involved\/take part in arts activity. Through the activity, both parties experience change.<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span class=\"blue\"><br \/>Partnerships<br \/><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"plain_grey\">Mutual activity and involvement is a key determinant to successful\u00a0<span class=\"blue\">community engagement<\/span>. Arts organizations who are involved with their local community embody these terms in several ways;<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Reaching out to the local community to identify arts needs its education programs can meet\/fulfill. This differs from developing an idea and then offering it to the community<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Introducing young people to \u00a0art forms through education programs, both within the organization (invite participants in) or taking a program out to the community &#8211; a school, community centre or public event<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Responding to an increasing desire for continuous learning by older audiences \u2013 through exhibitions,\u00a0 lectures, education series, take a performance to the audience<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Attracting visitors \u2013 who are drawn to the arts program as part of their visit ( it may become a reason why they visit )<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Employing local artists to deliver arts education programs \u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><strong><span class=\"blue\">Mutual Ownership<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Successful programs begin with a dialogue with the community to identify a need \/ opportunity, and an initiative or program follows. This is described as being more successful than the arts organization developing a program they wish to \u2018introduce\u2019 to the community. Mutual ownership of the idea and then program are suggested to be more successful in sustained impact over time. I\u2019ve observed that when financial circumstances are challenging, external arts education or outreach programs may be reduced or cut back. If engagement is part of the arts organization\u2019s mission, this may be short sighted. A successful organization focuses on taking programs out to the community as well as drawing participants to the organization and its arts goals.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Arts education is a means to\u00a0<span class=\"blue\">engage<\/span>\u00a0at all ages.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the mission statements of arts organizations, you see references to community engagement. The term can have many different interpretations across organizations and disciplines. I found a helpful definition in a recent (September 13, 2013) blog post by\u00a0ArtsBlog.\u00a0\u00a0It referred to definitions that I found simple and clear: \u00a0 \u00a0 Community\u00a0: refers to individuals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}