Most effective Community Artsworkers have at least some training in Education, The Healing Arts and are skilled at Consultation and Facilitation.
Community Artists are skilled at dealing with fuzzy boundaries!
When a community group coordinator contacts an Artsworker she may not be sure exactly what type of artistic activity would be appropriate for the group.
The Community Artsworker will talk through the needs of the community with the coordinator and make suggestions about processes that might work in this individualistic setting.
Particular types of communities may need to be approached in entirely different ways.
Here are some options that have been successful for communities. There are so many ways to go about using artistic/therapeutic process with groups of people that this description can only begin the process of brainstorming for ideas.
Art Therapy.
There is a variety of ways that an Artsworker might come into a community and conduct workshops.
Some groups look to Art Teachers to help them create and construct liturgical happenings. This may be through the Visual Arts or Multi Modal in nature
The teacher may be employed to
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