| The
Participation Project: Artists, Communities and
Cultural Citizenship
Timeline (updated
8/98)
| Note: Other programming will take
place as supportive and complementary components to the Participation Project. These
public events will take place in tandem with the processes described in this timeline and
are noted in this manner. |
 I. Phase One:
Planning/Consulting Group Winter - Spring ‘97
Community Arts Consulting Group meets to advise on
artist/cultural worker roundtables. This group, comprised of local experts* on community
arts/cultural organizing, analyzes the Participation Project proposal and focuses their
recommendations on the processes outlined in the proposal.
After an exhaustive process involving the consideration of
over forty local groups, they select an arts organization that will partner with another
community organization—these two organizations’ collaboration will become the
nucleus of the project. The Consulting Group also writes the Project’s mission and
overall goals, and recommends guidelines for the process.
*Glenna Avila, Director, CalArts Community Arts
Partnership; Tomás Benitez, Self Help Graphics/Writer; Tarabu Betserai Kirkland,
Writer/Producer; Glenn Akira Kaino, Artist/Website Designer; Nobuko Miyamoto,
Composer/Choreographer/Performer/ Teacher; Howard Spector, Cultural Arts Manager, City of
Manhattan Beach/artist; Josephine Ramirez, Getty Research Institute
| April 24 Artist
Lecture by Rick Lowe, community based artist working in Watts, developing a project
with the neighborhood near Watts Towers -- a combination of community redevelopment and
community artmaking. Sponsored by the Scholars and Seminars Program at the Getty Research
Institute. |
| June 28
"Art-ocracy" an interactive video performance by Cornerstone Theatre Company
plus a screening of the documentary "Chicano Park" at 6:00 in Boyle Heights at
the Catholic Charities building. A collaboration between Cornerstone, The Participation
Project and the Local Libraries, Local Knowledge Project. |
| July 17 Slide Lecture and
Tertulia with artist Pepón Osorio at Self Help Graphics in East LA in
conjunction with Osorio’s exhibition "Badge of Honor" at Otis Gallery. This
tertulia (an artist-to-artist/artist-to- community dialogue) will introduce local
artists to the Participation Project through a discussion of art and social issues in
Osorio’s work. |
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