Community Planning Building - Development

Art
Expresses Represents Communicates Celebrates

Creates

meanings appreciation

Vision

awareness feelings

Brings people together

Engages

Community
Unites
Builds relationships

Supports

The process of art-making: a powerful tool for community building

Organization Communication Dialogue Listening Negotiation process Facilitation Cooperation Problem-solving Decision making process

Creative Thinking

Short term project:

Collaborative Art Exhibition

Goals: - To connect community members through the experience of arts - To address an issue about the community of Bar Harbor - To change perspectives about art and art-making

Issues in BH community
Affordable housing prices statistics about population
flow examination of housing assistance programs

Transportation examination about past and actual

services accessibility

Economical diversity assessment of workforce

participation - job market - business

Local food consumption - awareness Intergenerational connections

Community integration - year round residents - summer residents - summer workers tourist college students

Or just celebrate community!

Specific actions - Contact potential partners

Ruth Eveland (Jessup Public Library director) Mary Lyman (community artist and educator) Emily Bracale (artist and educator) Lelania Avila (community activist and artist) Stanley Harmon (Town of Bar Harbor Treasurer) Ron Beard (Community Facilitator) Island Artisans (Artists Association) Schools Teachers More community artists

Local Artist: Mary Lyman

Collaborative art craft workshops

Mask making can be a very positive workshop that can lead to the expression of identity

Local Artist: Russell DAlessio

Expression of sense of place

Specific Actions: Mapping the art-related spaces in town

Jessup Public Library Town of Bar Harbor Municipal Building Village Green Conners Emerson School Gym MDI High school Gym

Long term project

Bar Harbor Cultural Center
Goals: Creation of a physical space in partnerships between school, business and the wider community Where people will benefit from arts programs Policy making from the product
Research more about: People engaged in art community Demographics of art practices History of creative projects Map of existing and desired conditions Identify potential public and private funding sources.

The Young Picasso Project

Learning how to develop a youth community art center on Mount Desert Island
Youth community art center Non profit organization managed by young people as active citizens of change. To strengthen Mount Desert Island Communities by empowering our youth with opportunities to develop and practice: critical thinking, creativity, and selfexpression through experiences in the creative arts. Art can empower and bring people together in endless ways Caleb Davis, COA 2002

Maine Alliance for Arts Education MAAE - www.maineartsed.org BCTA (Building Community Through the Arts) LINC-Arts (Learning In Community) MATF (Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship) Maine Arts Commission - mainearts.maine.gov Community Arts Program Grant and more! Schoodic Arts For All Winter Harbor schoodicartsforall.org Celebrating Arts and Culture in Down East Maine

Local Artist: Lelania Avila Use of poems and positive phrases as therapeutic community art