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Cultivating Citizen Artists: Interdisciplinary Dialogic Artmaking

Collins, Kate Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408661362

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
This study was designed with a desire to learn what happens when student artists step away from the traditional practice of self-expression and become facilitators of communication and catalysts of change in communities. How does such an experience influence their civic learning and what new pedagogical insights can be gained for fostering engaged citizen artists? This arts-based action research study was conducted through the vehicle of a newly designed community engaged arts course called the Citizen Artist Dine and Dialogue Initiative at Ohio State University. The course involved an intensive partnership between undergraduate students in the arts and youth artists from a local community arts organization called Transit Arts. Our process involved hosting a community breakfast dialogue series where the insights gained allowed us to create a culminating site-specific final project that was responsive to community concerns. All of this was driven by an interest in exploring the intersecting practices of arts and dialogue in civic engagement efforts. The conceptual framework for this study was informed by critical dialogue scholars Mikhail Bakhtin and Paulo Freire, as well as art historian Grant Kester who conceived the dialogical aesthetic. It also relied upon feminist scholars Nel Noddings, Carol Gilligan, and Megan Boler, who assert the ethic of care, a theoretical concept often cited in the growing body of civic engagement and civic learning scholarship that this study also references. In part, this study was a response to the numerous university arts educators and scholars in the broader field of education who have been calling for changes in arts education. There is a growing demand for students to be given a broader vision for a life in the arts so that they may be properly armed to take on the role of bridge builders and catalysts of change in communities. Findings from this study revealed that the lack of prior civic learning that is common for many students requires an incremental process to gradually build necessary civic skills, values, and knowledge. For student artists, dialogic artmaking became a valuable point of entry. Central to that success was the focus on dialogue and listening as crucial to the artmaking process, as well as collaborative placemaking. Noteworthy findings for the student artists included a newfound sense of connection to community, expanded notions of the aesthetic, and a developed sense of collective efficacy. Important implications for the field are articulated in relation to arts pedagogy, community-university partnerships, and programmatic changes for those invested in fostering citizen artists.
Karen Hutzel (Advisor)
Sydney Walker (Committee Member)
Valerie Kinloch (Committee Member)
Patty Bode (Committee Member)
374 p.
Art Education
artmaking; interdisciplinary arts; civic engagement; dialogue; citizen artist; university community partnership; undergraduate arts education; collaboration; arts-based action research; Mikhail Bakhtin; dialogic pedagogy; ethic of care; humanization

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  • Collins, K. A. (2014). Cultivating Citizen Artists: Interdisciplinary Dialogic Artmaking [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408661362

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Collins, Kate. Cultivating Citizen Artists: Interdisciplinary Dialogic Artmaking. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408661362.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Collins, Kate. "Cultivating Citizen Artists: Interdisciplinary Dialogic Artmaking." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408661362

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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