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
- 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
