Description: Seminar, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Designed for graduate students. Artist approaches to transformations of local and global communities through aesthetic practices in visual arts, spoken word, visual performance, music, and dance that include participatory audience inclusion and foster civic dialogue and community advocacy and activism. Issues of cultural democracy based in cultural retention and affirmation. Case studies of artist projects in community cultural development provide contemporary examples of evolving field of work and basis for critical analysis. S/U or letter grading.

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