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What is Arts-Based Civic Engagement

Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
In arts-based civic engagement, art-making and the creative process are the vehicle driving the civic engagement process or project. Participants in arts-based civic engagement may either use an arts performance or exhibition to call attention to the issue to be addressed or explore the issue to be addressed through the process of making art.
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The Arts, Civic Engagement, and Urban Youth
Amy M. Grebe (ACPPA Community Art Center, USA)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch014
Abstract
The Arts, Civic Engagement, and Urban Youth explores methods for using the arts as a vehicle to empower urban youth to become critically engaged in their communities and positively improve their quality of life. Barriers that prevent urban youth from critically engaging social injustices and inequalities are examined and arts-based responses offered. An arts-integrated methodology is woven into previously researched and proposed pathways to civic engagement in order to offer urban youth opportunities for hope and healing from chronic adversity. This arts-integrated methodology facilitates in the development of self-efficacy and knowledge for youth to successfully affect sustainable change in their communities.
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