Community Art Curriculum

Abstract

Within North America and Europe, community art and community art curricula have been used to describe teaching and learning in relationship to public murals, public art, community art centers, museum art education, service learning, outreach, arts partnerships, community development, and community‐based art. Community art encompasses the work of individual artists in community spaces, the artworks artists produce in these spaces, and community members creating art within these spaces. Community art practice has evolved to include concepts of socially engaged art, public pedagogy, and art at the pedagogical turn. With the advent and pervasive presence of digital communication technologies, such as Web‐based communication and publication, text messaging, and social media, redefinitions of the term “community” have opened up new possibilities for what and where communities exist, how the members of those communities interact with each other, and the art, cultural productions, and curricular possibilities they facilitate.