Community Art

What is community art?

Community art is an artistic activity based in a community setting, such as a town centre or club. The community art genre can be of any art forms as long as there is interaction or dialogue with the community it is in. The term community art was thought of in the 1960s which grew into a movement in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland and Australia. Often community art is based in poorer areas, with a community oriented, grassroots approach. Members of a local community will come together to create art, sometimes this may involve professional artists or celebrities. These communal artistic processes act as a catalyst to trigger events or changes within a community or even at a national or international level. Community art can also act as a trigger for other events on a local level, a national level or even at an international level. 

What are the different mediums of community art?

• Visual art/Fine arts (painting, murals, drawings etc.)
• Media art (films, video games, internet art etc)
• Concept art
• Performing arts (theatre, dance, music)
• Culinary Art

Why is community art important?

I think community art is important because has various benefits without having many drawbacks. One positive to community art is it acts as a way of bringing the community together, also it can act as a way of getting people out of their houses and being active and improving their physcological well being through exercise that can improve their minds. 

What are the benefits of recording a community art production?

One benefit to recording a community art production is it can show to any people not sure about participating or organising an event of this nature how successful it can be and showing how enjoyable it can be. Also, documenting a production can be a way of drawing in other people who wouldn't normally be interested or who had thought about it, as well as raising the profile of community art.

What do i think i will learn from this project? and also define the role i have been given

Through the course of this project i think i will learn more about community art and how it can affect a community. I will also learn how to document a live event. I will also learn about the documentary genre in TV and Film and also how to edit footage in the hope to organise it into the documentary style genre.

The role i have been given in the project is to document a community art production, and then later down the line, edit the footage together to form a documentary.