{"id":1173,"date":"2011-01-28T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2011-01-28T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:56:02","slug":"creative-campus-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/01\/28\/creative-campus-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I spoke of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecampus.org\"><strong>Creative Campus<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 What is it?<\/p>\n<p>It is an initiative that helps colleges and universities to integrate the arts into all areas of student life.<\/p>\n<p>(Program Description and Program Goals content taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecampus.org\">Creative Campus website.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Program Description<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The purpose of the Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program is to  identify, support, and document cross-campus interdisciplinary  collaborations that integrate the work of performing arts presenters in  the academy and the surrounding community<\/strong>. Arts Presenters will award  between 8 to 10 one- to two-year project grants, ranging from  $100,000-$200,000 each in 2010 to college and university presenters for  projects that go beyond conventional practice and perspectives, feature  innovative or experimental approaches, connect with arts and non-arts  constituencies, and stimulate discussion and debate. Funding support is  meant to both support new initiatives and deepen existing efforts to  integrate the performing arts into the academy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Project Goals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Creative Campus Innovations projects incorporate a variety of  campus-based programs and activities that integrate the work of  presenters into the life of the academy and the community by working  collectively with other college or university partners and community  partners to maximize resources and capacities in the performing arts.  Each project meets the following goals:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>integrate the performing arts <\/strong>into the education, service, and  scholarly missions of the academy and engage chief academic officers and  executive leadership;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>provide opportunities to deepen and expand the participation of  artist(s) in the academy<\/strong> through long term residencies, commissions  and\/or other creative activities; and<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>i<strong>dentify, document, and share lessons learned that will contribute  to an evolving knowledge base<\/strong> and learning community for campuses and  the wider performing arts and presenting field.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>For more information on Arts Presenters, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/artspresenters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">artspresenters.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ua.edu\/\"><strong>University of Alabama<\/strong><\/a> students in the Manderson Graduate School of Business may opt to complete the Cultural Awareness Program.\u00a0 The program has two levels.\u00a0 Level One requires graduate business students to attend an introductory session on the arts and commerce, six cultural events and debriefing sessions.\u00a0 Level two requires everything in Level One plus active involvement in running a production, arts marketing campaign, event programming or board membership.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/\"><strong>Dartmouth College<\/strong><\/a>, the Hopkins Center for the Arts\u00a0 used a two-year grant to \u201craise awareness and spark discussion about socio-economic difference in communities throughout the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cspecific goals with this project were to: (a) Provide opportunities for artists, students, faculty, administrators, and community members to engage with an important topic within a largely undergraduate liberal arts institution setting; (b) Raise awareness within the organization and academic institution to issues of class; (c) Build and deepen relationships with community organizations and academic departments; (d) Model a successful role for a campus arts presenter in creating and touring new work; (e) Build new audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I spoke of Creative Campus.\u00a0 What is it? It is an initiative that helps colleges and universities to integrate the arts into all areas of student life. (Program Description and Program Goals content taken from Creative Campus website.) Program Description The purpose of the Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4675,4684,4683,4685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}