Drawing on community organizing strategies and artistic activism, students in Community Practice courses are directly involved in putting ideas generated with the community into practice. This hands-on approach leads to a capstone project, which provides an opportunity to design and implement a community-based art project that allows for social transformation. Fall 2014 was the first year for this innovative master’s program, which explores the intersections between contemporary artistic practice, educational theory, and social activism.
Here are some of the projects we have undertaken so far:
Community Heroes Project, 2023
What is Social Practice Art? 2023
Zionist Cognitive Dissonance: A Zine for American Jews, 2022
Artistic Activism Recipe Book, 2021
Stories that Make Words/Words that Make Stories, 2019
#ignoranceisblissuntil: A Public Intervention, 2018
People’s Lower East Side Curriculum Project, 2018
Artist Educational Posters, 2017
Whiteness is… : A Public Intervention, Fall 2016
The History of Housing Activism in the Lower East Side, 2016
Countering Homophobic Policing in the UK: Federico Hewson
Mural Life in the Lower East Side, Fall 2015
Define Immigrant: A Public Intervention, Fall 2015
Private/Public, A Reproductive Justice Intervention, Fall 2014
Mini Climate March, Lower East Side, Fall 2014
Toolkit for Social Practice Art, A Tactical Intervention, 2014
