Partnership Projects
Each year the Center for Art and Community Partnerships embarks upon projects and programs that:
- engage youth, both in and out of school time
- build community through collaboration
- make connections between classroom and community-based work through the service-learning model
- support community goals and initiatives
- provide assistance to the community
- support organizations through work-study job placements
The Community Exhibition Crew organizes and installs ongoing exhibitions by community artists at Parker Hill Branch Library and Butterfly Cafe.
CACP's ArtMobile What happens when a team of active community members uses a vehicle as a catalyst to create extraordinary collaborative experiences? An initiative inspired by the local community, MassArt's Center for Art and Community Partnerships, and funded in part by the Kresge Foundation, poses this question. The ultimate design challenge is to distill the many voices of the community into a tangible and visible manifestation of this idea. We are creating a multi-purpose vehicle retrofitted with the potential to function in a variety of art and design-related capacities. We are on a unique and collaborative journey. http://tedxboston.org
Artist-in-Residence programs are hosted at New Mission High School and Tobin Community Center to co-develop and share art-based experiences that influence and inspire dynamic exchange, creative problem solving and art historical appreciation.
In Jonathan Santos' Making Art Public students create socially and spatially engaging experiences and interactions in Boston neighborhoods that are well researched, authentic, and responsive to particular sites. http://www.fieldpractice.org/category/making-art-public/
Six Playwrights in Search of a Stage, a collaboration between Roxbury Community College (RCC) and Liberal Arts professor Lin Haire-Sargeant, culminates in the production and performance of six ten-minute plays in RCC's mainstage theater.
Genzyme "Expression of Hope"CACP staff, in collaboration with Genzyme Corporation, coordinated the second incarnation of "Expression of Hope," a global program of goodwill and awareness centered on works of art featuring members of the global community touched by lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs).
This year, the Expression of Hope program partnered 9 Boston-area artists with people living with LSDs, and provided commissioned artists the opportunity to create work that expresses the spirit and emotions of their partners. These works were combined with art created by people living with LSDs to create a traveling exhibition that will soon be displayed at various events globally. The pieces are posted at www.expressionofhope.com.
Merck animation project
Animation Professor Leland Burke and a team of five junior level students created a three-minute long film for Merck Pharmaceuticals entitled "Running Time." The film represents the experience of cancer patients and will be placed in the lobby of Merck Research Laboratories in MassArt's neighboring Longwood Medical Area.
In order to complete the project, the students visited Dana Farber Cancer Institute (also a Longwood Medical Area neighbor) and Merck to conduct interviews with patients, researchers, and physicians. The students then worked together to create a piece that represented their varying aesthetic styles (one student worked solely on the audio component of the film) while depicting the range of how cancer affects patients, their famlies, and the individuals who work to perfect treatments and find a cure.
Boston Medical Center NICU project
David Condry, an illustration alumnus, worked with the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) staff at the BMC to transform the NICU space into an environment that is now more welcoming and relaxing for distraught parents and staff. While the project was initially intended to be a one-room undertaking, David was able to collaborate with a BMC donor (who is also an interior designer) to take on the waiting room, a nursing room, a bereavement room, and a staff lounge. David enlisted the help of then-senior painting major Joseph Feinsilver to help the project along by offering his own artistic contributions while helping other project volunteers.