Center for Art and Community Partnerships
The Center for Art and Community Partnerships cultivates innovative, sustainable relationships with the broader community to explore and expand the relevance of art in public life.The Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) matches MassArt faculty, students, staff, and alumni who want to complete community-based projects with neighborhood organizations, schools, corporations, and institutions to create mutually beneficial, sustainable partnerships in the visual arts. The center uses art as a catalyzing force for citizens to act creatively together.
Some of the projects emerge as part of course curricula, while others are driven by the needs of the center's partners. In both cases, the center works with the faculty members and local organizations to match student expertise to needs identified by community members, secure funding as necessary and providing technical support and project evaluation. The center also supervises and facilitates the placement of MassArt students in community organizations as teachers, designers, researchers, documenters of programs and events, and fine artists.
Recent partners include Action for Boston Community Development, Boston Public Schools, Boston Medical Center, Genzyme Corporation, Merck Pharmaceuticals, the National Park Service, Sociedad Latina, Tobin Community Center and many more.