Art & education combined with community service experiences in structured settings  are used to develop  context independent  communication competency

Art & education combined with community service experiences in structured settings
are used to develop
context independent
communication competency

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Everyone has an innate creativity that needs expression. Everyone is intuitively creative.

In workshops developed from this philosophy students have the opportunity to express their creativity by learning new ways to realize their own artistic visions, or to collaborate with unfamiliar others to express creativity within culturally different contexts.

Art & education combined with community service experiences in structured settings to develop context independent multicultural communication competency

At their most basic, all cultures express their values and beliefs through the art they produce. ‘Modern’ art consumers seem to be attracted to art for arts sake--aesthetic pieces of beauty that do not have a functional purpose beyond decoration.
For traditional, indigenous societies, the effort to survive prevented frivolous use of scarce resources for non-practical, strictly decorative purposes. Being creative people, however, and keenly aware of the sacred responsibility of using the skins, stones, metals, fibers, pigments and other materials needed to produce those functional items, artisans expressed their gratitude tangibly through the expert craftsmanship they invested in each of the functional objects they fashioned.
Other forms of art that I use for
therapeutic’ purposes include
short series of narrative or poetry
writing with a culminating
performance, often in detention
facilities. The best example of this (and where I received my training) is Still Point Theatre Collective’s Sisters Rising and the Persephone Project.  Click here to learn more.
Involving actors, family members
and community volunteers to build
sets for theatrical works allows
non-actors a way to contribute in a
collaborative, creative environment.