Field Notes

Kate Balug, another Creative Community Fellows alum, writes powerfully about narrow definitions of “community” and how her work seeks to do the opposite by breaching walls to promote inclusiv...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/on-community-2/

Justina Crawford is a Creative Community Fellows alum who works for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her picture of community is impacted by current events and reflects creating more inclusive en...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/rethinking-communities/

Our next entry comes from Micah Goldstein via new Creative Community Fellow Jane Wegscheider and is a great video about an annual event in their Western Massachusetts community. Jane writes: Mi...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/communities-are-creative/

Jean Mineo recalls a memory that left a powerful impression on how communities form and our ability to go out and create them. In managing a number of large-scale community-wide events, I find a ...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/communities-can-start-quietly/

Kate Schapira shares three stories about the needs that form a community and the effort it takes to be a part of one. Late summer, 2017: for a project, I needed many small drawings of organisms t...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/communities-come-from-needs/

New Creative Community Fellow Jesse Keller Jason sends her thoughts on “What does community mean to you?” with a photo from a community she holds dear.

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/a-communitys-traits/

In this photo essay, Jane Wegscheider reflects on her non-human community and explores how her connection to her garden affects how she interacts with her human community. My community begins wit...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/communities-dont-always-need-to-be-human/

Sheila Novak is a member of many communities and shares the myriad ways they overlap in a colorful drawing.

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/intersections-of-communities/

Gowri Savoor reflects on the warm and evolving community of her childhood in Britain and shares original art that commemorates her cherished memories. I had a fortunate childhood; living in the m...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/communities-are-fluid/

“What do you mean by the word community?” is a question I’m often asked when talking about the Creative Community Fellows program. And rightfully so. The term community is so over-used that...

https://www.artsjournal.com/fieldnotes/2018/07/where-culture-meets-community/