From the Pearl of the Orient to Uptown

ISBN-13: 9783639065954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 60 str.

Marissa Largo

Opis

Informed by social reconstruction, critical pedagogy, and critical multiculturalism, this research examines the ways in which collaborative art production can assist a youth activist organization in furthering its goals for individual and collective empowerment. Enacting the roles of the community artist/educator as facilitator and gatherer, two arts-based projects were developed for and with Filipino youth activists in Montreal as a way to extend their community work into art activism. Embracing participatory action research as the primary methodology, this research demonstrates that collaborative art production, tied to the concerns and values of an organization, allows its members to identify and visually represent community problems, connect personal experiences to larger group reality, and envision alternatives for their community. I reflect on my role as a cultural worker in this process and finally, I discuss implications of this research for community art education and community organizing.

O autorze

Marissa Largo is a Toronto-based artist and educator. She is a
graduate of York University''s Fine Arts and Education programs
and has a Master''s degree in Art Education from Concordia
University. Her art practice and academic research focuses on
multiculturalism, collaborative art, community art education,
cultural democracy and anti-racism