Amherst Community Portraits: Part II - Outside

The Outdoor aspects of a multi-faceted process of building community are highlighted in this video that included the collaborative development of 18 large-scale public works made by students, faculty and staff from Amherst College, integrating the creative processes of Wendy Ewald and Brett Cook. Participants explore building community through a number of contemplative, educational, and creative exercises that focus on learning. The project was anchored in Wendy Ewald's fall semester class Collaborative Art: Theory and Practice of Working with a Community. Both the campus community collaboration project and the Practice of Collaborative Art Class culminated with the large-scale public works mounted across the Amherst College Community and an exhibition at the Mead Art Museum. The exhibition includes a catalogue being published in 2009 highlighting the complete semester long experience. Video by Eric Gottesman.

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• Ewald
• Amherst
• College
• Public
• Art
• Collaboration
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