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Art is a weapon for social change by Dr. Tammy L. Brown

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Art is a weapon for social change by Dr. Tammy L. Brown

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1. Political
2. Spiritual

This video resonated with me as someone who wants to work in the public sector creating change for communities. Dr. Brown talks about how a student drew something on her dry erase board and how she left it there because it made her, "happy." This story reminded me of a moment this summer working with GoodVoice and Better Together when a student drew a sun to put over our map of the STL region. In the midst of our conversation focused primarily on pain and confusion, the sun brought a sense of happiness and joy reminding me to not get lost in the darkness, but rather look for the bright light at the end of the tunnel.

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Art is a weapon for social change: Dr. Tammy L. Brown at TEDxXavierUniversity

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Anchoring Cultural Communities: "Creatives in Residence" 

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Anchoring Cultural Communities: "Creatives in Residence" 

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Grand Central Art Center in partnership with the city of Santa Ana, CA and local Santa Ana, CA nonprofit organization, Community Engagement, joined together to create "Creatives-in-Residence." This program allows artists to serve, "as catalysts in bringing about positive change...in COLLABORATION with the individuals, families, and seniors who live there."

-free rent and $10,000 stipend for one year
-engages 4 low-income housing communities primarily POC
-aims to develop sustainable social practice initiatives (ex. after school tutoring, community gardens, community-driven art projects)

Through this program:
-create and retain affordable housing for low-income communities and communities of color that are valued by everyone

Daniel, M. H., Liu, J., & Rose, K. (2017). Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development. Policy Link.

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1. Map the cultural and artistic assets within the focus communities
2. Evaluate economic conditions and current investments
3. Identify barriers to resources for different sub-communities
4. Work with artists to engage the community and inform equity-driven process
5. Expand across public agencies
6. Ensure that governance and staffing are representative of the populations being served

Public organizations can support the growth of communities and build thriving economies, while also supporting artists and the work they do.

Daniel, M. H., Liu, J., & Rose, K. (2017). Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development. Policy Link.

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-The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded over 1,000 grants totaling more than $80 million in 2017
-Arts and culture organizations receive 43% of annual grant funding allocations

Daniel, M. H., Liu, J., & Rose, K. (2017). Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development. Policy Link.

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1. Promote interaction is a public space
2. Engage youth in the community
3. Increase civic participation through celebrations
4. Promote the power and preservation of place
5. Broaden participation in the civic agenda

Borrup, T., & McNaulty, R. (2013). The creative community builders handbook: How to transform communities using local assets, art, and culture. Saint Paul (Minnesota, United States): Fieldstone Alliance.

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-typically grassroots organizations that attempt to use the arts as a tool for human or material development
-arise from a specific circumstance of the people, places and time of its origin
-build social capital and organizational capacity for EFFECTIVE action
-Environment of constant encouragement

Guetzkow, J. (2002). How the Arts Impact Communities: An introduction to the literature on arts impact studies. 1-22. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
Knight, K., & Schwarzman, M. (2017). Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts. New York, NY: New Village Press.

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How can we reach our pre-defined goal?
Will money spent on arts programs have MORE of an impact than other programs?

"I am a bridge builder... And this is all about building the bridge-- that will take us all out of here." pg. 22

Guetzkow, J. (2002). How the Arts Impact Communities: An introduction to the literature on arts impact studies. 1-22. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
Knight, K., & Schwarzman, M. (2017). Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts. New York, NY: New Village Press.

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1. The arts increase social capital and community cohesion?

"Yes. It enriches, challenges, and deepens the ways we interact with each other. It also offers common avenues across community members to co-create and collectively envision new ways of approaching social policy, community economies, and infrastructure. Because it intersects easily with a lot of fields, it also equips practitioners with avenues of enacting new ideas within our civic and social lives." -De Nichols

2. The arts have a beneficial impact on the economy?

The nonprofit arts and culture sector is a $590.9 million industry in the Greater St. Louis Area – one that supports 19,129 full-time equivalent jobs

The arts have generated $57.7 million in local and state government revenue

11.8 million visits to the arts – more than the St. Louis professional sports teams combined

The arts have generated $591 million in total economic activity

3. The arts are good for individuals?

"Community Arts give people another outlet of expression, thinking, problem-solving, resolving-conflict, etc. in productive and progressive ways." -De Nichols

Guetzkow, J. (2002). How the Arts Impact Communities: An introduction to the literature on arts impact studies. 1-22. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
St. Louis Regional Arts Commission. (n.d.). Arts & Economic Prosperity 5. Retrieved July 1, 2018, from https://racstl.org/learn-connect/arts-economic-prosperity-iv/

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Guetzkow, J. (2002). How the Arts Impact Communities: An introduction to the literature on arts impact studies. 1-22. Retrieved July 1, 2018.