PROJECTS
Arts Mission 360 is designed to connect Christians together in the arts. The goal is to bring diversity from different parts of the globe to place t practice meaningful connections with a target community. Help to positively transform a community by shaping a better future. Art Mission 360 represents 360 of the 365 days in the year. 360 days are dedicated for the project. The remaining 5 days celebrate public holidays such as New Year’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, and Christmas. We are looking for artists, arts, talents, or organizations interested in others for 360 days of 2012. We provide free accommodations, and welcome participants throughout the year. You can stay for a few weeks or the entire year according to your project. Arts Mission 360 is organized by the Nka Foundation in collaboration with FocusOnTheArts.Org.
COMMUNITY ARTS IN FOCUS
Date: July 16 - August 6, 2011 - Click here to view the Final Report.
Venue: Kumasi and the Nearby Village
of Abetenim in Ashanti Region of GhanaThe 3-week event will focus on community arts practice, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary African artist and the rural community.. We will use Kumasi City-Abetenim rural sites such as market places, local schools, village centers, and others as laboratories for workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific installations, lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world. Thus, we invite individual or group submissions for community theatre, media arts, readings, film screening, slide shows, open studios, visual activism, musical performances, community design, social architecture and others to allow the rural community to become acquainted with international contemporary artistic practice. Project is open to only serious applicants.
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Character Inn Conference Center, Oklahoma City, USA
Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2010 - January 15th, 2011
Date: March 21 - 25, 2011
Early Registration Deadline: November 15th to February 15th, 2011
Full Paper Submission: Until March 15th, 2011
Our Community Arts Residency program accepts proposals of creative projects throughout the year that in some way involve the communities we are a part of. This is a part of our ongoing project of tapping local resources for sustainable human capital development through a focus on the arts. We provide free accommodation in an Arts Village setting. Length of project residencies varies from a few weeks to several months, according to project.
This is a site-based opportunity for learning-by-doing in vernacular African architecture together with design responsibility. A typical responsibility will be to design and build a structure out of earth and other materials for community arts activities. It is open to all students and recent graduates of Structural Design, Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and others interested in sustainable architecture and rural community development projects in Africa. Length of residencies is usually from 1 month to 12 months. Local master builder and local laborers, if necessary will assist participant.
Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable
Development in the 21st Century
(2ND Bamako Summer School)
Venue: L'Université de Bamako/ University of Mali, Bamako, Mali
Date: 22 -30 July, 2010The project is in collaboration with Balani’s Association, Bamako. With the practical acts and theoretical presentations we aim to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the arts feed civilizations in hope that we will generate new initiatives to boost human capital development in Mali in the 21st century.
Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art
Venue: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
Kumasi, Ghana
Date: July 31-August 14, 2009Done in collaboration with the Department of General Arts & Art Education, it dealt with the issue of sustainability in the 21st century to enable visual arts education developments in Ghana, because one major challenge in the postcolonial time is that best practices and resourceful programs often fail to roll out nationwide and to be sustained. The symposium was a follow-up to our 2008 Project Earth to Art in Nungua near Accra.
