Sources for Research Presentation

Art Sources

My first source for my art study is title The Art of Community Transformation by Seana S. Lowe. This article is from the Education and Urban Society publication. The article has much strength and helps to use many notable sources, which I plan to investigate and research further into, to draw the connection of art and community.

She focuses mainly on disconnection and the benefit of introducing community art as an effective way to bind together a community. She also tells that a professional artist must be the director of this project and help to be the “catalyst for the artistic process.” This source will help to tie in my thesis that art can indeed bind a community, which in effect will increase the altruism and collective efficacy as a whole in that community.

Source:
Lowe, Seana. “The Art of Community Transformation.”. Education and Urban Society (2001) vol. 33 no. 4: 457-471. Sage Journals. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

My second source is from a Project done at BYU, coincidentally enough, where artists came together and using their talent used a Billboard to convey a message of encouraged inspiring interaction and dialogue rather than an advertisement from a company selling a product. The artists showed a poem on the billboard, then taught workshops, and then concluded by having a community art event with reading from the poems that were shown on the billboard. This source will help to build further insight and support to the fact that art can bring together a community that will in turn build collective efficacy and altruism within a community.

Source:
Daniel T. Barney. and Ashley Mae Hoiland. "The Billboard Poetry Project." Visual Arts Research 38.2 (2012): 39-40. Project MUSE. Web. 7 Oct. 2013. 

Business Sources

My first source presented takes a bit of an obscure view of the viability of art in a community by delving in the pros and cons of the Business of Art Education. It takes an academic and economic approach to answer the question of whether or not the business of art education is a benefit or risk to the arts. Largely she pulls from her personal and other art education businesses experiences to conclude that indeed these could be viable ventures however certain risks would need to be avoided. These findings will help to cement the idea that community and art education can indeed be viable.

Source:

Shin, Ryan. "The Business Of Art Education: Friend Or Foe?." Art Education 65.2 (2012): 33-39. Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

The second source from which I’ll be using is a scholarly journal in which it is made evident that by artist’s ‘sweat equity’ economic development and retail growth can come as fruition. The journal studies New York’s South Houston neighborhood claim to upscale success in the late 1970’s when ten years prior the neighborhood was struggling and impoverished. The journal goes in depth about the gentrification of neighborhoods and how a neighborhood can benefit as a whole from this type of art scene presence. It will pull in the ties that artists living within an art neighborhood can draw other types of business and create a central hub of altruistic behavior through collective efficacy.

Source:

Shkuda, Aaron. “The Art Market, Arts Funding, and Sweat Equity: The Origins of Gentrified Retail.” Journal of Urban History (2012) vol. 39 no. 4: 601-619. Sage Journals. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.