Going Forward

Summer Plan

Summer Goal:
Meet requirements for Admission to Honors Program.

Monthly Goals:
June: Submit two faculty recommendation forms.

July: Complete Honors Application Form.
  • choose topic of thesis
  • choose concentration adviser
August: Complete thesis prospectus.
  • provide secondary and primary bibliography
  • decide how to organize thesis

Possible Topics:
  • Case study of social impacts of arts organizations in Providence
    • could focus on three different levels or types of organizations (size, profit/non-profit/unofficial, audience, age demographic, geography)
    • research would most likely be qualitative
  • Art and community development in the suburbs
    • case study of one or more suburbs where arts organizations are trying to become a part of/a positive impact on the community, trying to bring community together and enhance connections
    • analysis of any existing readings on topic, as well as applying readings about urban and rural art and community development
  • The arts and public policy
    • policies on cultural development, particularly cultural economic development
    • could include historical antecedents of cultural planning
    • focus? could be the Providence Plan

Further Reading:
  • Richard Florida
  • Maria Rosario Jackson readings (Urban Institute)
  • Reggae to Rachmaninoff: How and Why People Participate in Arts and Culture; Cultural Collaborations: Building Partnerships for Arts Participation; and Arts and Culture: Community Connections (policy paper based on studies used in "Arts Participation")
  • Community Development Journal
  • Eccles, J., and Gootman, J.A., Eds. 2002. Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  • Pankratz, D.B. 1993. Multiculturalism and public arts policy. Westport, CT: Bergen & Gamey.
  • Lippard, L.R. 1984. Get the message? A message of art for social change. New York: E.P. Dutton.
  • Zukin, Sharon. 1997. "Cultural strategies of economic development and the hegemony of vision," pp 223-243 in The Urbanization of Injustice, ed. Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw.  New York University Press.
  • Marek, L. I., Mancini, J.A., and Brock, D.P. 1999. Continuity, Success, and Survival of Community-based Projects: The National Youth at Risk Program Sustainability Study (Publication 350-801). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Cooperative Extension Service.
  • Seaman, Bruce A. "Arts impact studies: A fashionable excess," pp. 43-75 in Economic Impact of the Arts: A Sourcebook.  Washington, DC: National Conference of State Legislatures.
  • Mataresso, F. (2007) Common Ground: cultural action as a route to community development, Community Development Journal 42 (4), 449-458.
  • Newman, T. et. al. (2003) Do community-based arts projects result in social gains? A review of the literature, Community Development Journal, 38 (4), 310-322.
  • Markusen, A. and Johnson, A. (2006) Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Careers, Neighborhoods and Economies, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Miles, M. (1997) Art, Space and the City (London, Routledge).
  • Jones, S. (Ed.) (1992) Art in Public: what, why and how (Sunderland, AN Publications).
  • Wallis, B. (ed) If You Lived Here. 
  • Blaney, J. (1989) The arts and the development of community in suburbia, in: British and American Arts Association (Eds.) Arts and the Changing City: an agenda for urban regeneration, pp. 81-84.
  • Connelly, S. (2006) Looking inside public involvement: how is it made so ineffective and can we change this?, Community Development Journal, 41(1), 13-24.
  • Greene, M. (1995) Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts and Social Change, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.Schools, Communities, and the Arts: A Research Compendium (NEA)
  • Belfore, E. and Bennett, O. (2006) Rethinking the Social Impact of the Arts: a Critical-Historical Review, Research Paper No. 9, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, England. 
  • Can der Veen, R. (2003) Community Development as citizen education, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 22(6), 580-596.
  • *highlighted sources in Week 10 documents 
  • The RAND The Arts and Prosocial Impact Study papers
  • Further reading is highlighted in the reference sections of "From Brew Town to Cool Town," "'Gentrification' and Desire," and "Politics of a Creative Class"
  • radio documentary about creative economy investment in Michigan
  • Becker, Heather. Art for the People [book]: discusses depression-era Chicago school murals
  • COOL (Lowell cultural organization)
  • Attleborough Arts Museum: foster family program
  • conversation with Stephanie, Craig, Bert, Jason, Susan, Alma Carillo at the Steel Yard
  • arts organizations headed by artists? how do they interpret their role as someone leading an arts organization?
  • Rivers Edge in Woonsocket
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