Guidelines and Applications

Partnership Guidelines [Download]

Mutual goals and outcomes of collaboration are clearly identified.

Partners define what resources they hope to access through collaboration with MassArt, and what resources they can offer the MassArt community.

A process for collaboration is established (i.e. sharing work, defining each partner’s respective role, determining time and staff requirements for meeting and planning).

MassArt and community partners identify individuals to provide leadership to maintain and facilitate communication during all phases of collaboration.

Homeless Kids project, 2003

Partners agree to approach the project, and the challenges the partnership might encounter, in an open and collaborative manner.

The partnership plans to conduct documentation, and assessments of growth, learning and change over time.

Partners consider possibilities for sustaining the collaboration over the long-term.

The partnership plans to share its work and results with others.

 

 

Steps in Developing Community Partnership Projects [Download]

1. MassArt community members and community-based individuals, groups, and organizations complete the application for inclusion in The Center for Art and Community Partnerships’ Partner Profiles Database.

2. The Center encourages prospective partners whose goals and interests are similar to collaborate on drafting a project proposal. Alternatively, those already acquainted bring a project proposal to the Center for consideration.

3. Prospective partners and Center staff meet to discuss the goals of a proposed partnership project and to determine if those goals reflect the Center for Art and Community Partnerships Guidelines for Collaboration.

4. Partners complete Project Proposal Application, which outlines the following: scope of the project, resources provided/required, budget, timeline, administrative duties, funding needs, and assessment strategy.

5. Should the Center fund the project, the partners meet to confirm the scope of the project and establish a firm project timeframe including specific goals and steps for implementation.

6. During project implementation, the partners meet periodically with Center staff for reflection and assessment. Support is provided if necessary.

7. Project is completed, or if sustainability is a goal, a long-term strategy is established with support from the Center.

8. Partners share project outcomes with MassArt and members of the broader community.

Applications

Application for Inclusion in the Center for Art and Community Partnerships Partner Profiles Database [download]

Sharing Our Stories, 2004

The Center uses the Partner Profiles Database to match MassArt staff, faculty, students, and alumni with community members and organizations with similar interests in order to initiate new community-based projects.

College-Community Collaboration Application [download]
New partnerships are created with support from the Center for Art and Community Partnerships, which works to pair community members with MassArt faculty, students, alumni, or staff who share a common vision for engaging in collaborative, art-based projects. Once MassArt and community partners have identified their common ground, the next step is for partners to design and propose projects that support the partners' goals and interests. The Project Application provides a format for partners to articulate their vision for collaboration as well as to describe the specific process for implementing their proposed project.

Classroom-Community Collaboration Application [download]
Classroom-community collaborations, including “service learning” projects, are directly linked to curriculum, using the arts to build bridges to communities beyond campus while providing students with new skills in the context of course objectives. These projects create connections between MassArt students and the broader community, matching artists’ skills with community members’ interests, needs, and experience.