Art and Civic Engagement: Creativity/Reality

The primary objective of this course is to learn about and reflect upon public art and communities. This course will use selected public art and artists' ideologies as a framework for exploring culture, creativity, politics and practices and focus on the ways in which these public art works and artists' responses to varied forms of internal and external operators and stimuli successfully and unsuccessfully give voice to aspects of the environment, history, culture, social justice, health, politics and the imagination. This course will also pay attention to arts organizations, government agencies, history, power relations, human resources as well as leadership and the political that continues to influence public modes of artistic production.