'Enter/Face: Facing New Challenges with Community' On View Now Through Monday, Oct. 5

Master of Arts in Community Arts students reflect on work with the community in Rosenberg Gallery exhibition

Posted 09.29.09 by The Center for Art Education

Categories: Exhibitions; Art Education; MA in Community Arts; MICA Community; Alumni; Undergraduate Students; Graduate Students; Faculty; Parents; Staff

In June 2009, Master of Arts in Community Arts students embarked upon their formal education in the field of community arts. Central to their own learning, they taught art-making with youth in eight sites across Baltimore City. Simultaneously, they began to define their processes as individual community artists.

Each of them crossed the threshold to explore their relationship within the context of community, mapping the interface by:

Identifying critical issues
Forming new relationships
Unpacking preconceptions
Communicating hope

Enter/Face: Facing New Challenges with Community is a reflection on the challenges these students encountered with community related to education, youth development, racism, environmental concerns, public health and other issues of social justice. Together, they create a connective platform where they pose the metacognitive question: What is Community Art?

Artists: Lindsey Bailey, Hannah Brancato, Barbara Joann Combs, Christina Cooke, Holly Crawford-Seay, Sarah Edelsburg, Michelle Faulkner, Robert Fitzgerald, Ashby Foote, Quentin Gibeau, Nora Howell, Nataki McNeal Bhatti, Zoe Reznick Gewanter, Katti Sta. Ana, Natalie Tranelli, Jessie Unterhalter