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Community art, also known as "dialogical art" or "community-based art," is an art form based in a community setting. Artworks from this genre can be characterized by interaction and/or dialogue. The term was defined in the late-1960s and spawned a movement which grew in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia.

Often the work is based in deprived areas and covers all the artforms, but with a community oriented, grassroots approach. Often members of a local community will come together to express concerns or issues through an artistic process, sometimes this may involve professional artists, actors, etc. Often these communal artistic processes act as a catalyst to trigger events or changes within a community or even at a national or international level.


Community art centers


In English speaking countries community art is often seen as the work of community arts centre. Visual arts (fine art, video, media art), music and theatre are common mediums in community art centres. Many arts companies in the UK do some community-based work, which typically involves developing participation by non-professional members of local communities.

Community art and public art


The term community art refers also to field of community, neighbourhood and public art practice with roots in social justice and popular and informal education methods. In the art world, community art signifies a particular artmaking practice, emphasizing community involvement and collaboration. Community art is most often art for social change and involves some empowerment of the community members who come together to create artwork/s with artists. This is a growing national, international, regional and local field. Recently community arts and sustainability work or environmental action have begun to interface, including urban revitalization projects creating artwork at a neighbourhood level.

In Scandinavia, the term community art means more often contemporary art project.

Community arts organisations

A large number of organisations worldwide are active in the field of community arts. Some notable organisations are listed here:

UK

A.I.M._(Artists_In_Mind)

Online community art


A community can be seen in many ways, it can refer to different kind of groups. There are also virtual communities or online communities. As well there is a form of net art that could be called online community art. Internet art has many different forms, but often there is some kind of community that is created for a project or it is an effect of an art project. There can be also a group of artists (net.art) who share interest on Internet art. Net.artists have built digital art communities, a linked list of these can be found in Wikipedia article net.art (see headline Social networks).


Key artists

Further reading

  • Fox, John. Eyes on Stalks. London: Methuen, 2002.
  • Goldbard, Arlene. New Creative Community: the art of cultural development. Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2006.
  • Hirschkop, Ken. Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Kester, Grant. Conversation Pieces: Community + Communication in Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
  • Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Boston: MIT Press. 2004.
  • Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.
  • Pete Moser and George McKay, eds. (2005) Community Music: A Handbook. Russell House Publishing.
  • Helen Crummy (1992) Let The People Sing. Craigmillar Communiversity

See also

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