Expressing community through freedom market and visual connections

Building on a long-term university/community research partnership, this article examines how different ways of conceptualizing, interpreting, and producing murals impacted how an urban community saw itself. Using a participatory action research design, university researchers worked alongside communi...

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Published in:Pedagogies (Mahwah, N.J.) N.J.), 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.4-20
Main Authors: Larson, Joanne, Hanny, Courtney, Duckles, Joyce, Pham, Hoang, Moses, Robert, Moses, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action Research
Art Activities
Art Expression
Art Products
Artists
community art
Community Development
community transformation
multimodal expression
Neighborhood Improvement
Neighborhoods
Painting (Visual Arts)
Participatory action research
Participatory Research
Partnerships in Education
Research Design
School Community Relationship
Urban Areas
visual connections
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Summary:Building on a long-term university/community research partnership, this article examines how different ways of conceptualizing, interpreting, and producing murals impacted how an urban community saw itself. Using a participatory action research design, university researchers worked alongside community researchers to ethnographically document the transformation. Findings indicate that the mural project constructed pathways for building relationships and community in ways that made neighborhood transformation possible. The mural project embodied this transformative goal by providing a space where people gathered with shared attention to talk and to envision how their lives and their community could be different.
ISSN:1554-480X
1554-4818
DOI:10.1080/1554480X.2017.1283999