Anita Sinner - Community Art Education: Creating a model of innovative teaching and research in Canada (Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts Seed Grant)

Anita Sinner (Principal investigator), Linda Szabad-Smyth, Kathleen Vaughan
Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts Seed Grant

The Community Art Education (CAE) program at Concordia is unparalleled in longevity, embeddedness in key community and social service agencies, links to art teacher education, and orientation to outstanding arts practice as well as teaching. The Creating a model of innovative teaching and research in Canada project recognizes both the historic contributions of the CAE program to art education, and how it continues to evolve in ways that define community art education practices.

Creating a model of innovative teaching and research in Canada investigates the history of the community art education program in the Department of Art Education, how this program is situated in relation to art education in Canada, and the scope of current literature concerning community art education.