Five Learning Outcome Objectives for AAD 550: Art in Society

  1. Develop my AAD “lens.” This means that I will be working on looking at projects, readings, and conversations through a “lens” of theory and practice that reflects an arts management approach.
  2. Keep a keen interest in all the ways art, folklore, society, and popular culture feed off one another and intersect in daily life and happenings.
  3. Explore and research ways to promote the idea that “art is for everyone,” and learn how to make the arts more inclusive. How do I work to break down that wall between “high art” and “folk art” (among other categorizations of “art”) when the categories are artificially constructed? I feel that doing this, even in some small way, would increase accessibility to the arts.
  4. Increase my use of media and transmedia storytelling to enhance a folkloristic approach to advocacy through the arts.
  5. Become better versed in how to evaluate community response to the arts and arts programming.