Arts & Culture in Community Connectivity & Creative PlacemakingPresented by:

Vince Carducci, PhD

Dean of Undergraduate Studies

College for Creative Studies

CCS Overview

Private, nonprofit art & design school located in Midtown Detroit, founded in 1906

13 Undergraduate & 4 Graduate majors

Total enrollment (fall 2015): 1402

Additional community outreach: Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative

Studies

Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3)

Community Arts Partnership (CAP)

Case studies

CCS Community Arts Partnerships (CAP)

Mission: Collaborate with Detroit community organizations to provide art education, experiences, and resources

4000 students served & 100 programs delivered annually

Programs: Free art classes for city of Detroit youth

Art & design career discovery tours

Public art & neighborhood beautification (CPAD)

CPAD projects to date

CalimeraPark, Osborn(Photo: MLive)

Faina Lerman& GraemWhyte, Memory Field, 2010(Photos: GraemWhyte)

Memory Fieldunder construction

Memory Field with neighborhood kids

Kate Daughdrill & Mira Burak, Edible Hut,2013

Edible Hut under construction(Photo: Kate Daughdrill)

Jessica Care Moore performance at the Edible Hut(Photo: Matterology)

(Photo: The Hinterlands)

Carpenter Exchange

Organizing partners Power House Productions Inc.

The Hinterlands

Popps Packing

Carrie Morris Arts Productions (CMAP)

Funding National Endowment for the Arts

Knight Foundation

Erb Family Foundation

Wire-car Auto Workers Association of Detroit (WAWAD) Wire Car Parade

Walter Wasacz, Psychogeo-graphic Stroll(Photo: Porous Borders Festival)

James Cornish, “Destroying Colossus” performance(Photo: Porous Borders Festival)

Food Scavenger Hunt(Photo: Porous Borders Festival)

Potluck dinner across from Popps Packing (Photo: Marsha Music)

Conclusion

Working with the community not for it

Building social & cultural capital, as well as economic capital

Recognizing “culture” as broadly understood