STUDENT RESOURCES
COMMUNITY PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
Student Service Learning Resources
Welcome to the student resource page for the PLACE Program.
The PLACE Program is aimed at being student-centered and community-based.
We believe extra-curricular involvement in arts-based service learning is
a student’s opportunity to develop pre-professional skills while contributing
to community needs. There are many ways to develop a career pathway into the
arts; there is no prescribed course of study, testing or licensure as there
are in other professions. Today’s artists need to develop entreprenurial
skills that will help them promote their talent, skills and ideas. Developing
diverse professional skills in addition to your academic training is a way
for students to get an edge on their personal career pathway as emerging fine
arts graduates.
This is where you can find links to arts-based service learning projects that
are seeking student participation now! This is where you can find course offerings
in service learning. This is also where you can find arts-related job and
internship postings!
Along the way, we encourage fine arts students to self-educate!
The PLACE Program is offering our research findings on arts-based service
learning and relational aesthetics to help educate our readers on these subjects.
Check out our webpage “Service
and Relational Arts.” We offer our readers starting definitions
on these subjects while we provide you with links to artists and projects
that do a better job demonstrating relational arts practice. We offer references
and articles on these topics, too. But we won’t offer a one-size-fits-all
methodolgy for arts-based service learning or theory for relational aesthetics.
Instead, we hope to promote a college-wide dialogue on these topics toward
a college vision for fine arts higher education reform. Students are encouraged
to shape this college vision as they shape their own education.
If you want to be on the PLACE student list serve to get updates on the latest
community service opportunities, receive our bi-monthly 2 minute E-Newsletter
or be prompted when new job postings come in, please email us requesting to
be put on our list. Put “student list serve” in the subject of
your email and send your request to place@unm.edu
COMMUNITY PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES:
The PLACE Program has developed some arts-based service learning projects
that students can take advantage of now. Check out our website links to the
following projects:
The “Living Mural” is a youth development project that will pair
UNM fine arts students with visiting groups from the Big Brother/Big Sister
Association to work on our 88 foot mural located along the North side of the
Art Museum. UNM service participants will have an opportunity to work with
the Visiting Community Artist leading the mural workshop.
http://place.unm.edu/mural_info.html
CALL for “Expressing Community” – Student Grants Opportunity. This is a grant that supports student community arts practice. Students may submit proposals for projects that are IN community and ABOUT community. Selected students will become Relational-Artists-In-Residence (RAIR) working with the PLACE Program to develop their community projects and professional community arts skills. To learn more: http://place.unm.edu/precall.html
The “Arts and Medicine” Program is located at the University Hospital
and is seeking volunteer student musicians for various performance series
offered throughout the hospital. Patice Repar, ethnomusicologist and Assistant
Professor in Department of Music, is the program’s. This is a rare opportunity
to work in a unique program that is likely to change your perceptions about
music, audience and venue.
The “Downtown Window on the Arts” is a City of Albuquerque 1%
Public Art Project. It is window display that uses two high definition screens
and close sound projections. This is a great opportunity for CFA student artists
to submit their creativework (art, dance, music, media arts ). Art History
students interested in curating are invited to propose a curatorial
project.
www.windowonthearts.com
The “Art and Environment” project initiative is aimed at bringing
fine arts and science/tech students together to form an interdisciplinary
team to compete in WERC’s 15th International Environmental Design Contest
at NMSU in April 2005. Students are volunteer participants in a two semester
collaboration that will be a groundbreaking forray into dismantling artificial
barriers between disciplines. Come be the first! Limited to 7 students.
SERVICE LEARNING COURSES:
More to be announced...
Arts and Community Service - Crs #393 Chicano Studies
Description:
Service Learning Component:
Instructor: Alejandro Lopéz
Email: alej@unm.edu
Theatre --- Crs #
Description:
Instructor: Susan Pearson Davis
For details contact:
Arts & Medicine
Media Arts
Basia Irland
STUDENT JOB POSTINGS:
The PLACE Program will seek job postings for fine arts students from both
the University and the Albuquerque community that aim to develop arts-related
professional skills. We will request employers to identify in their job descriptions
the pre-professional skill development they will foster in the position. Internships,
paid and unpaid, will also be posted here as well as Americorps positions.
We will not post general administration jobs or jobs unrelated to the arts.
Fine Art Mentors - Paid Americorp and Work Study Positions with the
Whittier Community Learning Center, a literacy-based community project funded by a 21st Century Learning Grant. Our program is looking for motivated students who want to mentor youth and encourage them through artistic expression. You can do this as a volunteer, as a service-learning project through a class, UNM Work Study or consider becoming an Americorp member.
Contact: Dianne Kinabrew @ 507-6388 or 255-2008 x 29318
Click here to read full Job Announcement and photo of a elementary school
puppet project.
Student Service Learning Resources
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