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CACP Partnerships and Programs in Academic Year 2005-2006

Art and Healing Program
Classroom-Community (faculty-led) Collaboration
College-Community Collaboration
MassArt Student-Led Program
Program for Kindergarten - 8th Grade Students
Program for High School Students

Art Jump-Off

Years: 2005- Present
Funding: Linde Family Foundation
Participants: 2 MassArt faculty members; 10 MassArt students; 17 k-12 students; 2 partner staff
Partners: MassArt Art Education Department, the Boston Arts Academy; the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School
Art Jump-Off was created though a partnership between students in the Art Education Department’s “Creating Community” class and teachers at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester. MassArt students wrote curricula and lesson plans for a series of after school art electives at the Frederick School including ceramics, graffiti, collage, video, and drawing. MassArt students also partnered with high school students from the Boston Arts Academy (BAA) who were trained to act as mentors and assistant teachers in the middle school classroom.

Art of Landscape

Years: 2005- Present
Funding: Bank of America Foundation and CACP
Participants: 3 MassArt staff; 2 MassArt Students; 15 K-12 students; 15 parents; 5 partner staff
Partners: MassArt K-12 Programs Office; the National Parks Service; the Lyndon School; the Curley School; the O’Hearn School
Art of Landscape brings 15 3rd graders and their parents to Scarborough Pond in Roxbury’s Franklin Park four times a year to examine the changing landscape though spring, summer, fall, and winter. Children, their parents, and art teachers from participating schools experiment with different art making tools in each season. National Parks Service staff and MassArt student teaching assistants direct participants to explore their surroundings and note changes in the landscape as the seasons change, focusing on the impact of the Olmsted’s designs and the visual environment on our quality of life.

Art Relay Team

Years: 2004– Present
Funding: CACP
Participants: 3 MassArt staff; 4 MassArt students; 15 K-12 students; 3 partner staff
Partners: 1st Church in Roxbury
The Art Relay Team was developed in response to the high volume of community requests for teaching and art making opportunities directed towards the Center. MassArt students are recruited for the Art Relay Team to evaluate, develop, and lead new programs or projects in response to needs identified by community groups. During the 2005-06 school year 4 MassArt students developed and taught a weekly after school art class for teens attending the 1st Church in Roxbury’s after school enrichment program.

Believing is Seeing; Perceptions of Reality (Exhibitions: Concept, Context, Audience)

Year: 2006
Funding: MassArt Art Education Department
Participants: 1 MassArt faculty member; 1 MassArt staff member; 10 MassArt undergraduate students; 15 8th graders; 1 partner staff member
Partner: Mission Hill School
Each Spring semester, the Exhibitions: Concept, Context, Audience course launches an exhibition based on a topic researched by the students and their professor, John Giordano. This year students found areas of interest inside the topic of “reality” and created artworks that articulated their personal views on the subject. Working with staff from Looking to Learn, the Exhibitions class developed a three-part gallery education program for an eighth grade class from the Mission Hill School. The program asked the eighth graders to look critically at what they saw - especially media images - and to challenge the validity and authenticity of those images.

Expression of Hope

Year: 2006
Funding: Genzyme Corporation
Participants: 2 MassArt faculty; 6 MassArt undergraduate students; 3 MassArt graduate students; 15 families; 7 partner staff
Partners: Genzyme Corporation; Broad Street Creative Communications Group
Expression of Hope is global program of good will and awareness featuring works of art by and for the community touched by lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs). Through a partnership with Genzyme MassArt artists were paired with adults and children living with LSDs from around the world, using video conferencing, email, and telephone calls to learn their partners’ history, interests, and perspectives on living with an LSD. The commissioned artists created pieces that reflected upon and celebrated the lives and experiences of their partners. Works by MassArt artists and people with LSDs now make up a traveling exhibition.

Joslin Diabetes Center Pediatric Clinic Space Redesign Study

Year: 2005
Funding: CACP
Participants: 1 MassArt faculty member; 14 MassArt students; 10 partner staff
Partners: MassArt Architecture Department; Joslin Pediatric Diabetes Clinic
During the fall of 2005, the Center provided support for a partnership between MassArt Architecture Professor Paul Hajian’s Design Works class and the Joslin Pediatric Diabetes Clinic to apply MassArt students’ expertise to a proposed redesign of the Clinic’s public spaces including the reception area, main hallway, waiting areas, and play areas for children. Joslin staff evaluated proposed designs, and plan to implement the most popular ideas when the Clinic is renovated.

Kids to College

Funding: The Education Resources Institute, Inc.
Participants: 5 MassArt staff; 4 MassArt students; 15 K-12 students
Partners: MassArt K-12 Programs Office, Mission Hill School
6th graders who were part of Kids to College participated in a variety of activities with MassArt students, staff and faculty both at MassArt, and at the Mission Hill School in Roxbury. Field trips to MassArt included a Looking to Learn visit, a computer animation demonstration, and a tour of the campus. MassArt staff and students participated in Mission Hill School activities, visiting classes and attending Friday Share with the entire student body.

Looking to Learn

Years: 1996- Present
Funding: Linde Family Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Participants: 2 MassArt staff; 12 MassArt students; 460 K-12 students; ____ partner staff
Partners: Condon Elementary School, James M. Curley Elementary School, Latin Academy, Harbor Middle School, Neighborhood Charter School, Mission Hill School, McKay Elementary School, Edwards Middle School, Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School, Brighton High School, New Mission High, Boston Community Leadership Academy
Looking to Learn is a visual arts education program for Boston-area elementary and high school students built around exhibitions in MassArt’s Paine and Bakalar galleries. The program consists of an in-school orientation session, a gallery visit to MassArt, and a follow-up art making activity designed to extend the time and depth of student exposure to contemporary art. In 2005-06 participants in Looking to Learn visited The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment; Selections (juried works by MassArt faculty members); and Shintaro Miyake’s Beaver No Seikatsu (an interactive installation and performance).

MADE in Lawrence

Years: 2003- Present
Funding: The Stevens Foundation
Participants: 2 MassArt staff; 2 MassArt faculty; 13 high school students
Partners: MassArt K-12 Programs Office; Essex Art Center; Lawrence CommunityWorks; Lawrence High School
MADE in Lawrence is designed for high school juniors and seniors who are interested in earning college credit while developing their portfolios for college admission in the visual arts. Students receive 1.5 college credits from MassArt as well as mentoring and portfolio preparation help and admission information as they research college options. In the spring of 2006 MADE in Lawrence offered an eight-week painting course taught by Julie Bokat, Adjunct Professor of Studio Foundations at MassArt.

MassArt/ Adobe/ Madison Park 21st Century Media Partnership

Years: 2006- Present
Funding: Adobe, CACP
Participants: 2 MassArt faculty members; 8 MassArt students; 10 high school students
Partners: Adobe, MassArt Studio Foundations Department, MassArt Academic Computing, Madison Park Housing Development
This nascent mentoring program pairs MassArt students with local high school students living in the Madison Park Housing Development to collaboratively learn and experiment with digital imaging, web design, and publishing using Adobe software. The partnership also fosters relationships between MassArt undergraduates participating in MassArt’s COMPASS program and local high school students who are interested in learning more about the college application process and student life on campus from the point of view of older students from nearby neighborhoods.

MassArt New Student Orientation

Years: 2004-2005
Funding: MassArt Student Development Office
Participants: 3 MassArt faculty members; 3 MassArt staff; 350 MassArt students; 15 partner staff
Partners: Discover Roxbury; MYTOWN (Multicultural Youth Tour of What’s Now); Mission Hill Main Streets; MassArt Academic Computing; Institute of Contemporary Art; UrbanArts Institute at MassArt; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Frederick Law Olmsted Estate; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; local artists and researchers
On September 1st 2005 the Center for Art and Community Partnerships coordinated a day of learning, exploration, and art making in the communities that surround MassArt, as part of the college’s new student Orientation. Teams of students, upper class “Primers,” and other interested faculty and staff met with leaders of local historical and arts organizations to learn the history of the Mission Hill and Fenway neighborhoods and to use their art expertise to respond to needs defined by community partners.

Reclaiming Annihilated Architecture

Years: 2004-2006
Funding: CACP
Participants: 3 MassArt faculty; 3 MassArt students; 80 K-12 students; 5 partner staff
Partners: MassArt Sculpture Department; Handshouse Studio; Ipswich High School; Norwell High School; Beacon High School; Situate High School; Duxbury High School
Art teachers from five high schools worked with MassArt faculty members Rick and Laura Brown to research the Polish Gwozdziec synagogue which was destroyed during the Nazi regime. Teachers learned about the synagogue’s architecture, history, and religious iconography, as well as materials and building techniques of the period. Participating teachers then created curricula for their high school classes, directing their students through the process of reconstructing and painting a portion of the interior dome of the Gwozdziec synagogue.

Sharing Our Stories

Years: 1999- Present
Funding: The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
Participants: 1 MassArt faculty member; 1 MassArt staff; 8 MassArt students; 45 2nd and 3rd grade students; 4 partner staff
Partner: The Mission Hill School
Sharing Our Stories is a 7-year-old art and literacy program in which MassArt students work with 2nd and 3rd graders on the integration of visual art and writing. The program is designed to promote literacy by providing elementary students the opportunity to use visual language to access ideas leading to expression and understanding. Sharing Our Stories culminated in a celebration at MassArt and a group show of completed paintings in the Sparring Partners window gallery at 635 Huntington Avenue.

Sparring Partners window gallery at 635 Huntington Avenue

Years: 2005- Present
Funding: Harvard Medical School, CACP, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Mission Hill Main Streets
Participants: 3 MassArt staff; 2 MassArt faculty members; 15 MassArt students; 6 partner staff
Partners: Harvard Medical School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Mission Hill Main Streets, the UrbanArts Institute
635 Huntington Avenue was the site of Sparr’s Drugstore from 1936 until 2002, when Arthur Sparr sold the space to Harvard Medical School (HMS). In 2005 HMS invited Mission Hill Main Streets, MassArt, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to collaboratively conceptualize and administer a gallery space in the windows of 635 Huntington Ave. Throughout the year representatives from the partner institutions issue calls for art, jury submitted work, and coordinate installation of shows by community artists and students from both schools.

Community-Based Work Study

Years: 2004- Present
Funding: Federal Work-Study program
Participants: 18 MassArt Students
Partners: Mission Hill Main Streets; 1st Church in Roxbury; Museum of Fine Arts; Sociedad Latina; MissionSafe; Art Builds Community
The community work-study program allows the Center to provide compensation to eligible students who wish to work in a community setting either on a project of their own devising or as part of an established program. In 2005-06 students who worked in community organizations completed graphic design projects, developed educational materials, taught after school art classes, led summer arts programming for teens, acted as mentors to local high school and middle school students, and conducted research.

What’s Cooking: Fun Recipes for Family Wellness – a Kids’ Cancer Cookbook

Year: 2006
Funding: The Tomorrow Foundation
Participants: 1 MassArt faculty member; 15 MassArt students; 1500 children and families; 5 partner staff
Partners; MassArt Design Department; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Children’s Hospital Boston
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Child-Life and Nutrition Departments and the Jimmy Fund Clinic partnered with Associate Professor of Design Lisa Rosowsky’s Print Production class to create and publish a cookbook for children undergoing cancer treatment. What’s Cooking contains recipes that address many aspects of pediatric cancer care issues such as dishes for children on high-calorie diets and for those experiencing nausea related to chemotherapy or other cancer treatments. The cookbook also contains recipes the entire family can make and enjoy together.