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  2. Social practice (art) - Wikipedia

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    Social practice or socially engaged practice [1] in the arts focuses on community engagement through a range of art media, human interaction and social discourse. [2] While the term social practice has been used in the social sciences to refer to a fundamental property of human interaction, it has also been used to describe community-based arts practices such as relational aesthetics, [3] [4 ...

  3. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  4. Social justice art - Wikipedia

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    Social justice art, and arts for social justice, encompasses a wide range of visual and performing art that aim to raise critical consciousness, build community, and motivate individuals to promote social change. [1] Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social ...

  5. Transformative arts - Wikipedia

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    Transformative arts is the use of artistic activities, such as story-telling, painting, sculpture and music-making, to precipitate constructive individual and social change. The individual changes effected through transformative arts are commonly cognitive and emotional .

  6. Participatory art - Wikipedia

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    Participatory art is a form unto itself, while other types of art that interface with the public (social practice, socially-engaged art, community-based art, etc.) are its sub-types. While it may seem paradoxical, just because an artwork engages with the public, that does not make it participatory.

  7. Visual anthropology - Wikipedia

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    More broadly, visual anthropology recently involves a call to make visual culture central to the exploration of social and political experience; to give primacy to the visual, against a conventional approach in the social sciences that treats the visual as secondary to written sources and discourse (Pinney 2005; Kalantzis 2019). [22]

  8. Visual Arts Association - Wikipedia

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    A proposal for the establishment of a permanent national body called the Visual Arts Council, "to co-ordinate, direct and advise on all national visual art matters", had been submitted by the Auckland Society of Arts (ASA), to the Minister of Education, Ronald Algie, in 1950. "The Council should advise and make recommendations to the National ...

  9. Visual AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Visual AIDS is an art organization based in New York City. Started in 1988, it is one of the first initiatives to record the impact of the AIDS pandemic on the artistic community. Art institutions and AIDS-related communities co-developed projects like Day Without Art , Night Without Light , The Banner Project , Postcards from the Edge, [ 1 ...