New Community Arts Masters Degree Program Announced
November 15, 2005
Maryland - This summer the Maryland Institute College of Art launched a new Master's degree program in community arts. The program provides a unique credential for visual artists who wish to pursue a career in art-based youth and community development. Graduates emerge with insights, skills, and experience that enable them to be effective community arts professionals.
The program, administered through MICA's nationally recognized Center for Art Education, spans two summers and one academic year. Grounded in the principles of social justice, the MA in Community Arts features intensive, ongoing work with children and youth in community settings. Students are encouraged to develop their own voice as they simultaneously investigate the relationship of the citizen artist and art to community building. This will be accomplished through dialogue with community members, leaders in government and nonprofit organizations, and professional community artists along with the integration of individual production and theory. Real-world experiences are supported by classroom study of community arts theory and practice and work in the studio. These investigations prepare students to develop proposals for and implement their own community arts projects.
To learn more, visit the Maryland Institute College of Art website.