This study focuses on arts organizations as change agents that utilize art as their primary practice to instigate a positive transformation within the Mid-Hudson Valley. Provided that elements such as geography, financial situation, quality of education, crime rates and diversity create an ecosystem, communities located in this region of the State of New York experience adverse circumstances related to these mundane elements. Present administrative practices were considered through this study to further understand how these arts organizations established themselves within their communities. The Mid-Hudson Valley is an area with a rich historical and industrial background located north of New York City. It is an area made up of seven counties …show more content…
Considering these elements, a total of five organizations, ranging in artistic disciplines that originated in the Mid-Hudson Valley are the main subjects of this narrative. Their particular perspective and structural planning to assess many of the needs they classified in their communities are the basis for non-urban areas to be studied. The Clay Arts Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh, the Center for Creative Education, The Rockland Music Conservatory and the Wallkill River Art School have placed themselves as agents of change within their communities. Although they function like most non-profit do, their unique placement and responsibility considers addressing challenges and opportunities specific to their organizational entity, community and programming influences while also working towards a financial balance of maintaining funding and generating means by which to continue their mission. It is visionary organizations that deal with a great sense ambiguity and a driven passion within the artistic field that have brought about the use of art as a vehicle for
...tion, we can try new forms of creating art, while questioning and expanding the very nature of collaboration itself.
There has been steady growth in the food industry in Newburgh due to population growth in the region. The increase in population has led to increasing demand of food items in Newburgh. The population of Newburgh has increased from 28,260 in the year 2000 to 28,866 in the year 2010 (Haugen, 2012). This means that there is a ready market for different food products available in Newburgh and its environs. In the last five years, businesses in hotel industry across New York, where Newburgh is located, have been thriving due to the increasing number of visitors visiting the region. In the year 2014, the city hosted 55.8 million visitors with some residing in or near Newburgh.
The island of Manhattan was consolidated into the greater New York City in 1898. Because of this the city was transformed from a nineteenth century seaport with cobblestone streets into a twentieth century metropolis of skyscrapers and subways. The artists of the Ashcan movement saw this changing society in human terms. They saw this in a light which depicted the interaction of so many different cultures which were being thrust together. They documented these changes on a level which the ordinary person could understand. Because of the Ashcan School we have a picture of society which one really cannot understand amidst the overpowering spectacle of overpowering buildings and increasing technology.4
New York City has always been an example of how diversity can exist in a successful and peaceful place. Full of action, enthusiasm, and a combination of many cultures, New York is rich in every sense of the word. For example, taking a walk down the busy streets not only opens your eyes to the small but meaningful details of the city and the different people that revive it but also the numerous worlds that are somehow fused in this magical city, like Little Italy, Chinatown, Little Syria, Korea Town, and many others.
Jane Golden demonstrates the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Mural Art Program that has changed the appearance of the city in a positive way and that gives people a way to embrace how they feel. While Harriet F. Senie in Reframing Public Art and is stating that most public art is being ignored by people and is slipping away into urban-scape. Public art is often ignored art, we don’t know how those pieces of art are actually successful. Public art such as sculptures
Malita Rogelj researched the importance of the connection between sustainability and art. In this research Rogelj developed the understanding that sustainability concerns
We encounter art everyday. Art is paintings and sculptures, music and dance, film and photography. It is also fashion designing and architecture, novels and magazines. These seemingly different things have one thing in common – they are all ways in which humans convey themselves. For thousands of years, humans have used symbols to tell a story or describe a struggle. Art is the use of these symbols, symbols that represent us in some distinct way.
My goal for this paper is to give a practical critique and defense of what I have learned in my time as a Studio Art Major. During my time here I have learned that Pensacola Christian college’s definition of art “art is the organized visual expression of ideas or feelings” and the four parts of Biblosophy: cannon, communication, client, and creativity. Along with Biblosophy I have studied Dr. Frances Schaeffer 's criteria for art, seeing how the technical, and the major and minor messages in artwork. All of these principles are great but they do need to be refined.
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The work of art is conveyed as a unity of concept, visualisation and the artist who provides the idea". Beuys believed that "if one where, by default, an artist, then one might be an artist everywhere, or in every context in which one finds
“Every student in the nation should have an education in the arts.” This is the opening statement of “The Value and Quality of Arts Education: A Statement of Principles,” a document from the nation’s ten most important educational organizations. The basic message is that music and art programs in the schools help our kids and communities in real and substantial ways. There is an abundant amount of facts and information that supports this statement. The benefits of arts education can be narrowed down into 4 basic categories: success in developing intelligence, success in ...
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. (2014) State Policy Briefs. “Why Should Government Support the Arts” Retrieved April 18, 2014, from http://www.nasaa-arts.org/Advocacy/Advocacy-Tools/Why-Government-Support/WhyGovSupport.pdf
When the religious art leaks out of the religious community and into the broader world of culture, it is one of the ways the meaning of the art can evolve. This is also an opportunity for the art to draw the world to religion. Moreover, artistic reinterpretation of sacred imagery can help keep religion honest. The church has always been enriched by the tension that comes with diversity in art. Art is communication and effective art communicates effectively to any group at any level.
Although The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) of Boston was the only place dedicated to contemporary art for more than 50 year, it is having trouble growing into a pillar of the art industry (Reavis, 2010, pg.1). The main problem is the organization’s powerless leadership. According to Peter Northouse (2015), leaders must possess an effective influencing power in order to motivate followers (pg.47). The leaders prior to Jill Medvedow failed to get the local community fondly interested in contemporary art or an environment that showcases it. Therefore, there are no investors, donors, or patrons breaking down the door to fund or see the exhibits presented in the old
The mind creates the emotions and ideals responsible for art. The brain is capable of imagining glorious things, and art is the physical manifestation of these ideals. These ideals are usually intense emotions with aesthetic power (Wilson, 220). Art organizes these emotions in a matter that can easily express the ideals to...