Read the new blog post update on the Art, Culture, and Community Development Collaboratory!
The Art, Culture, & Community Development Collaboratory is exploring a national agenda regarding university-community partnerships in the arts that benefit community development. Members are committed to understanding the complexity of individually-situated projects in both urban and rural contexts. To form their collaborative research agenda, they are drawing on their own experiences of sustainable arts and economic revitalization efforts in their communities.
Collaboratory questions include: 
- What challenges do we confront as we attempt to change organizational cultures (from bottom-up as well as top-down) to support campus-community partnerships for community revitalization?
- How do we define reciprocity, collaboration, and partnership?
- How do organizational scale, place, and history influence the nature of our partnerships?
- How do the temporal differences between campus life and community life influence our practice?
- How do we conduct research about our practices and what methodologies do we use?
Related Reading
Dec. 2011 Collaboratory Update by Micah Salkind
Leadership
Principal Investigators
Kendall Phillips, associate dean, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University
Ron Bechet, professor, Department of Art, Xavier University of Louisiana
Micah Salkind, graduate student, American Civilization, Brown University
Research Fellows
Cheryl Ajirotutu, Diversity and Climate, Cultures and Communities, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Myrna M. Breitbart, Geography, Urban Studies, Community Engagement and Collaborative Learning Network, Hampshire College
Jeri L. Childers, Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, Virginia Tech
Ruth Janisch Lake, Civic Engagement Center, Macalester College
Bob Leonard, Theatre Arts, Virginia Tech
Heather Lewis, Art and Design Education, Pratt Institute (ex-officio)
Catherine Michna, American Studies, UMass Boston
Mark Naison, African and African American Studies, Fordham University
Marion Wilson, Community Initiatives in Visual Arts, Syracuse University
