The Arts & Social Responsibility Project

Annual Report 2010-2011

Boston College

Prepared by Crystal Tiala, July 28th, 2011

“If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”

-President John F. Kennedy: Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Mission Statement 2

2. Student Formation and Academics 3 3. Overview of the 2010-2011 year 4 4. Strategic Planning 5

5. Academic Programming and Collaborations 6

6. Student Initiated Projects 11

7. Future Academic Programming Initiatives 16

8. Continuing Challenges 16

9. Arts & Social Responsibility Board of Advisors & Staff 19

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The Arts and Social Responsibility Project builds upon the uniqueness inherent in the fine and performing arts to positively influence our society. Recognizing that art has the potential to communicate, engage, instruct, educate and heal in ways that words alone cannot, the program provides a platform to support creative artistic endeavors that incorporate scholarly, responsible and ethical goals. Arts and Social Responsibility Projects will demonstrate how art can serve as communication, marketing, activism, education and therapy. Students will be involved in all aspects of the program's activities from governing and forming collaborative initiatives through the generation and execution of these ideas as a means to educate them to be 'men and women for others'. Working independently or in combination with other disciplines, students and faculty will explore social responsibility through the program’s sponsored artistic projects, multi-faceted lectures and research. Arts and Social Responsibility Project seeks to engage students, artists, scholars and faculty along with audience members in the creation of art and performance as a means to shape positive change in today’s society.

1. MISSION STATEMENT

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3. OVERVIEW OFE 2010-2011 YEAR

“It is only the imagination, I suggest, that can bring us – whether in a work of art or in the Spiritual Exercises – to the full encounter with religious reality, because it is only the symbolic language of imagination that can resist the human drive for simple clarity and determinateness…. Mind, without imagination, is not enough. Transcendent reality can only be intimated, guessed at, caught out of the corner of the eye, and for this, only the splendid ambiguity of symbolic utterance and experience will serve. Since God cannot be seen, we must work with analogues of God: stories, images, rituals and gestures. And it seems to me that anyone who whishes to discover as fully as possible the human experience of the divine will turn to the artist’s attempts to capture – in paint, in clay and stone, in words and the sounds of music – her and his own experience, whether within one’s own heart or in the beautiful and terrible world around us, of the God who continues to reach out to and to touch us.”

Robert J. Barth, SJ, Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Vol. 14, Iss. 1 [1998], Art. 3

There are three key aspects of a student’s growth as described by the Center for Student Formation at Boston College: social, spiritual and intellectual. Although the arts, by their very nature, already encompass all three areas, combining the arts with socially responsible activism expands their reach across campus. First, the arts drive our imagination and involve the whole person in the act of creation, a process that requires both the formation of the art and the experiential impact of the finished piece by an audience. This intuitive communication defines the artistic process as inherently both social and spiritual. While art is also arguably an intellectual activity for its own sake, coupling it with socially responsible causes forms connections in other academic fields that spark the types of lateral thinking often heralded by innovative professionals.

As teachers, advisors and mentors, we may never fully realize how deeply we are able to impact our students. Any work that is creative, empathetic, observant and playful defies being measured in quantifiable terms. However, judging by the increasing requests presented by faculty and students to create new projects, the ASRP is filling a critical need on campus. The arts, as Robert Barth, S.J. explains above, allow us to look at our world through the “symbolic language of the imagination.” In this way the arts provide a unique educational opportunity that utilizes engaging methods to disseminate information. Our students acquire a more complex understanding of human situations when employing stories, images, rituals and gestures.

President Kennedy in his remarks to Amherst College in 1963 understood that artists, in order to be true artists, are motivated by sensitivity and concern for justice. Therefore the nation must fully recognize the place of the artist in our society. The ASRP recognizes the place of the artist at our university and actively cultivates the growth and sensitivity of artists by supporting creative and socially responsible projects.

2. STUDENT FORMATION & ACADEMICS

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In this past academic year, the ASRP continued to connect faculty whose research intersects with the ASRP mission and supported learning opportunities from their classrooms. Guest artists provided educational opportunities for specific political, human rights, environmental, and sustainability issues and enhanced related learning experiences of the students. These collaborations promoted the practice and scholarship of the arts with other research areas. This past year, the Arts and Social Responsibility Project supported and assisted eight collaborative academic events and ten student initiated activities as well as helped to advertise related events on campus. The student activities serve a symbiotic endeavor in the overall picture of the ASRP. By providing and supporting student initiatives, we encourage socially responsible leadership and creative problem solving. Projects connect student research from many disciplines with the arts and vice versa. It taps into the students’ passion for the arts and performance in combination with their desire to be ‘men and women for others.’ Students quickly learn that their creative passions need not be mutually exclusive from their humanitarian goals and they find an outlet to express themselves productively. Moreover, the students who serve on the board for ASRP were crucial in developing collaborative bridges with faculty who teach related courses and with the many socially responsible

student groups at Boston College. This is the first year the ASRP has been working collaboratively with the Arts Council. This new relationship allows the ASRP to share office and marketing resources at the Arts Council Office. In addition, socially responsible art events are being incorporated and featured in the Arts Festival programming. The ASRP intends to build on its past successes by continuing this model of scholarship through the connection of the arts with faculty research initiatives as well as supporting student initiatives for socially responsible art projects.

3. OVERVIEW OF THE 2010-2011 YEAR

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“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi While the ASRP is very proud of achievements to date, it continues to seek out new initiatives for further growth. For our short-term goals we intend to:

• Continue establishing connections with new faculty across campus • Improve the processes by which students can apply for assistance with projects • Improve newsletter communications and advertising using the new marketing system

adopted by the Arts Council Office • Employ a student to manage incoming emails, project requests, newsletters, website updates

and other frequent office work • Employ a student to assist with ASRP promotions

In the long term, it is helpful to seek out models from other institutions. One such model is Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard:

“The mission of Cultural Agents is to promote the arts and humanities as social resources. We foster creativity and scholarship that measurably contribute to the education and development of communities worldwide. Identifying creative agents of change, reflecting on best practices, and inspiring their replication, we show that creativity sustains healthy democracies by developing the moral imagination and resourcefulness in citizens.”

Its mission and even many of its events are quite similar to what the ASRP attempts to accomplish. The Cultural Agents have significantly greater funding and staff and enables it to accomplish more programming and bring in higher profile international artists. It has a 13 member international board of directors and a staff consists of a faculty director, an associate director, an executive director, two co-directors of the Bogota Center for Cultural Agents, an events coordinator, a calendar intern, a webmaster, an associate for development, a video artist, a teaching artist, and a video editor/web consultant. These resources enable the success of the projects at Harvard that the ASRP at BC can only dream of at this point of our development. Using Cultural Agents as inspiration, the areas of long-term growth the ASRP may consider these possibilities for long-term growth:

• Grant writing for specific initiatives and conferences • Focusing more resources on bringing high-profile artists to campus • Establishing partners with other cultural initiative type programs • Advocate for increasing funding and staff support for our initiatives

4. STRATEGIC PLANNING

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• Adios Ayacucho: mask workshop and theatrical production • Remember the Triangle Factory Fire: documentary, theater and educational panel • Witnessing Conflict: a photographic exhibit in the O’Neill 3rd Floor Gallery • Little Town of Bethlehem: movie and panel on reconciliation groups in Palestine and Israel • Witnessing the Occupation: Palestine Israel Photographic Exhibit • Natalie Jeremijenko; artist and scientist • Alive, On the Inside: an anti-bullying play • Prison Outreach: MCI Framingham

Project Title: ADIOS AYACUCHO

• Date: September 28th, 2010 • Event: Afternoon mask workshop for 25+ students and

performance at 8 PM that evening • Academic significance: The content of this

performance and workshop brings awareness of social issues of Peru to our campus. It directly enhanced the experience of courses taught by Brinton Lykes and Crystal Tiala and was well received by the campus community.

• Sponsors: Arts and Social Responsibility Project, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and the Robsham Theater Arts Center

Description: Internationally acclaimed Peruvian theater group, Yuyachkani performed this story of a suspected ‘terrorist’ who has been tortured and murdered by the military. Speaking through the body of a masked dancer, the disappeared peasant presents his demand for a decent burial and turns the audience into a community of witnesses. Yuyachkani is a cultural association, dedicated to creating theater collectively in a way that includes the dance, music, traditions, masks, motifs, and other elements of Peruvian culture. Project Title: REMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE

• Date: March 25th, 2011, 4:30 PM • Event: Documentary film, reading of script and panel discussion about union labor. • Academic significance: The involvement of multi-media, live theater and panel discussion

involved numerous student participants and created an evocative way to present a tragic occurrence that would have repercussions for future labor policies and practices. Produced by Theatre Professor, Patricia Riggin.

• Sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, Department of Theatre and the ASRP

5. ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

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Description: The Triangle Factory fire had repercussions for decades to come, shaping safety and labor laws first in New York and then throughout the country. It was also a pivotal moment in the labor movement organizing garment workers who were working under horrific conditions in sweatshops. The New York State Legislature funded a factory safety commission, which held months of hearings, collected testimony from hundreds of owners and workers, and inspected nearly two thousand factories. Within two years, the commission's shocking findings spurred the passage of more than 30 new laws. They set standards for minimum wages, maximum hours and workplace conditions, gave teeth to child labor laws, and addressed each and every failure at the Triangle factory. Project Title: WITNESSING CONFLICT

• Date: April 26th through September • Event: Inaugural art exhibit in the new 3rd floor Art

Gallery of the O’Neill Library with reception. • Academic significance: The photo exhibit fosters

emotional and intellectual inquiry of issues in the world where people have experienced traumatic conflict. It also celebrated the artistic scholarship of retiring faculty member, Charles Meyer.

• Sponsors: A & S Dean’s Office, the Arts Council, the ASRP, and the O’Neill Library.

Description: Witnessing Conflict: Photographs from the Balkans, Kosovo, South Africa, and Northern Ireland Artist: Charles Meyer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Fine Arts department This project is a photographic survey of regions where people of differing ethnic backgrounds or religious persuasions are in conflict. The series examines perspectives of peace, reconciliation, and restorative justice among the perpetrators, victims, and/or survivors of these conflicts—all of whom have come to understand the necessity for reconciliation. Charles Meyer is retiring after more than 30 years at Boston College. His work as a documentary photographer has made a significant contribution to intellectual conversations about conflict, peace, and justice.  

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Project Title: LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM

• Date: September 21, 2010, 7 PM • Event: Movie and panel on reconciliation groups

in Palestine and Israel organized by Professor Eve Spangler

• Academic significance: This movie and panel served as an extension of faculty research on Israel and Palestine and promoted greater knowledge of these issues to the greater BC community.

• Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project, the Social Justice Project and the BC Libraries

Description: The North American premiere of Little Town of Bethlehem was screened, a groundbreaking documentary about the growing nonviolence movement in the Middle East told in gripping first-person accounts by a Palestinian Muslim, a Palestinian Christian, and an Israeli Jew who came of age in the violence but are choosing a path of nonviolence. The three men at the center of the film, along with the film’s director, made an exclusive appearance at the BC screening to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience.

Project Title: WITNESSING THE OCCUPATION

• Date: March 25, 2011, 4:30 PM • Event: Photographic exhibit by students

resulting from the class (SC367) taught in Israel and Palestine by Professors Eve Spangler and John Mc Dargh

• Academic significance: This exhibit served as an extension of lessons learned from the classroom and promoted greater knowledge of these issues to the greater BC community.

• Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project, the Social Justice Project and the BC Libraries

Description: An exhibit of photography presented by the Boston College students for justice in Palestine following eight days in the West Bank and Israel.

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Project Title: NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: ON SITE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CLINIC AND PUBLIC TALK

• Date: April 26th, 2011 • Event:

o Public talk: The Coming New Entertainment System

o Afternoon Workshop: On-Site Environmental health clinic

• Academic significance: Working with the students of Sustain BC and others involved with Professor Hake’s initiatives, this program reached across disciplines to combine art and eco-friendly practices, bringing awareness of environmental issues through artistic commentary.

• Sponsors: SustainBC, The Arts and Social Responsibility Project, The Institute for Liberal Arts, the Environmental Studies Program, UGBC, Ecopledge and ArtsClub.

Description: Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, and engineering. Her work takes the form of large-scale public art works, tangible media installations, single channel tapes, and critical writing. Jeremijenko’s work has been exhibited internationally at prestigious venues that include Dokumenta and the Whitney Biennial. Her work has been discussed in both mainstream media such as The New York Times and in the art press. Natalie Jeremijenko is an Associate Professor in Art, Affiliated faculty in Computer Science, Affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development at New York University.

Project Title: ALIVE, ON THE INSIDE: ANTI-BULLYING PLAY

• Date: April 30th, 2011, 3 PM and other times at local schools

• Event: Performed at the Arts Festival and taken to local area schools

• Academic significance: Arising from the Creative Dramatics class, the play is developed by BC students to learn how to reach younger audiences through theater.

• Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Theatre Department

Description: A play about bullying written by Professor Luke Jorgensen. Every year Creative Dramatics II creates a piece of theatre and brings it to schools, the campus school, the Arts Festival, etc.  

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Project Title: PRISON OUTREACH

• Date: Various scheduled workshops and performances • Event: Two plays taken to MCI Framingham and volunteers working with inmates on

creative theatrical activities at various times. • Academic significance: Headed by Patricia Riggin and Crystal Tiala, about a dozen theater

students used their theatrical skills to work with inmates. The process has been enormously formative for our students as they become familiar with the prison systems and the people caught in this system.

• Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Theatre Department Description: This year the BC Theatre Department has been working closely with Sister Maureen Clark and her program, Fully Alive. Through this initiative we were able to program handful of events at MCI-Framingham, a medium security prison for females located in Framingham, MA. In mid-October the cast of Top Girls and in March the cast of Rabbit Hole were able to visit the MCII Framingham prison and perform excerpts from their productions. Many of the actresses were touched by this experience and the inmates’ positive reactions to the show. Jules Forsberg-Lary ‘12, described her experience as “a jarring and unforgettable one. It was the most rewarding experience to-date I have had at Boston College.” And while the cast was so excited to bring this show to the prison, they recognized that the need for art at MCI-Framingham is large. “I want to go back and perform again, or participate in a workshop because I care about bringing art to people that really need it, and I feel as though these women need it more than anyone I've met thus far,” said Forsberg-Lary.

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• Michael Meyer • Speak Truth to Power • Senior art project on the role of visual imagery in learning literacy • Arts and Education panel at Arts Festival • And Still We Rise • Social Art and Media presentation • Art Mural Project: What does your garden grow? • Shawn Carey: the BP Oil Spill • The Green Show • ASTEP – Artists Striving to End Poverty – student chapter

Project Title: MICHAEL MEYER, "THE LAST DAYS OF OLD BEIJING: LIFE IN THE VANISHING BACKSTREETS OF A CITY TRANSFORMED" Student organizer: Natalene Ong Date: Thursday, April 7 Sponsors: The Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Christian Legal Society, Law Students Association, the Institute for Liberal Arts, the International Studies Program, & ASRP. Description: Guest lecturer Michael Meyer, a Peace Corps volunteer, has written about the consequences due to destruction of neighborhoods to prepare for the Beijing Olympics. The Minnesota native lived for two of his 10 years in China in one of the courtyard neighborhoods - called hutong - first settled 800 years ago, whose narrow lanes run mazelike through the center of Old Beijing. In his book, "The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed", he captures the communal life that is disappearing as historic single-story neighborhoods are razed to make way for tourist-friendly replicas. Project Title: SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER Student Organizer: Kasey Brown & 20 student volunteers Date: April 15th in the Robsham Theater and April 30th at the Arts Festival Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project and Artists Striving to end Poverty Description: Speak Truth To Power is a powerful play about human rights and social justice. It tells the stories of real human rights activists from around the world, and asks cast and audience members alike to consider the question: do we really care? It is a stunning portrayal of some of the world’s most courageous people. This was produced and performed entirely by student volunteers.

6. STUDENT INITIATED PROJECTS

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Project Title: SENIOR ART PROJECT: VIETNAMESE LITERATURE AND ART Student organizer: Ngoc Doan

Photos and art by Ngoc Doan Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Montserrat Coalition of University Mission and Ministry Description/Goals: • concentrate on rural areas where poverty and hardship exist • research elementary school children’s literature particularly

books with proverbs and stories • listen to stories and their moral lessons • convey these stories through painting to teach moral lessons

without the necessity of understanding the Vietnamese language

Con  cò  mày  đi  ăn  đêm Đậu  phải  cành  mềm  Lộn  cổ  xuống  ao

Ông  ơi,  ông  vớt  tôi  nao Tôi  có  lòng  nào  ông  hãy  xáo  măng

Có  xáo  thì  xáo  nước  trong Đừng  xáo  nước  đục  Đau  lòng  cò  con  ...

“Art is important to me, and I hope to show others that it is a way of telling stories. I hope to discover the unexpected in my time there. At the same time, I hope to rediscover my past and embrace those memories through my paintings as a search for my identity when I get back to the United States. My goal is to use paintings to convey the short stories that teach elementary children moral lessons to viewers without understanding of the Vietnamese language. This is a very important because Vietnamese children learn from stories.” - Ngoc Doan

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Project Title: ARTS AND EDUCATION PANEL Student Organizers: Kristen Kehlenbeck, Greg Keches, Andrea Chudzik and Juan Rodriguez Sponsors: The Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Arts Council Description: As a follow-up to their work in the Creating Social Activists Images course, these students showed their 10 minute documentary film on the need for the arts in education. The screening was followed by a panel of professional educators and students. Their documentary can be viewed at http://artsustains.wordpress.com/

Project Title: AND STILL WE RISE Student Organizer: Kevin Morris and the Presidential Scholars Program Date: April 13th, Cabaret Room, 7 PM Sponsors: The Presidential Scholars Program, the Arts and Social Responsibility Project, Description: And Still We Rise Productions is a collaborative theater project dedicated to healing, public awareness, and social change through empowering the voices of formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones. We believe that the power and authenticity of the participants’ stories will increase public awareness of and desire for criminal justice reform. It is our greatest hope that all involved will be compelled towards action for effective change. Project Title: SOCIAL EYES ART AND MEDIA EXHIBIT Student Organizer: Henisha Patel Sponsors: Social Eyes Date: May 4th, 5 PM, O’Connell House Description: Social Eyes, an academic journal featuring sociological work by BC undergraduates, hosted a multi-media exhibit of many forms of art relating to sociology and current social issues. The exhibit features paintings, photography, and film, all created by Boston College students and community members.

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Project Title: WHAT DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? Organizers: Kristie Lonich and the Arts Council Date: Arts Festival, April 28 – 30th

Description: Student artist teams explore what they see “growing in their gardens” and create a collage of murals for exhibition on the construction fence in front of Gasson Hall. The project is led by Arts Professor Mark Cooper. Sponsors: Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Arts Council. Project Title: SHAWN CAREY: PHOTOGRAPHING THE BP OIL DISASTER

Student Organizers: EcoPledge Date: October 25th, 8 PM, Devlin 008 Sponsors: EcoPledge and ASRP Description: Shawn Carey, a renowned wildlife photographer, shared his firsthand account of the BP Oil Spill Disaster through the photographs and videos he shot during his recent trips to Louisiana. Carey explained through videos and photos what has taken place in Louisiana in terms of the negative impact the BP oil disaster has had on birds and other wildlife. The people living with this and some of the coastline

or beaches that still to this day have not been cleaned up or those that BP claims to have been cleaned but still have oil.

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Project Title: THE GREEN SHOW Student Organizers: Kelley Fitzgibbons, Lauren Gomez and Meg Lister Date: April 28th, 9 PM, Arts Festival Sponsors: EcoPledge, ASRP and the Arts Council Description:

The event included a small lecture and corresponding large fashion event to educate students on sustainable design practices. Guest designers, Jessa Blades and Marci Zaroff, were featured at two events. The small lunch on Friday included about 10 students with whom the professional designers talked about their own work. Green Show on Friday of the Arts Festival had about 400 attendees. Marci Zaroff who opened the fashion show with information about why sustainability was important to fashion and Jessa Blades trained and worked with the student team of make-up artists.

Working with professional designers was a valuable experience for the students. Meg Lister used the event and along with interviews and a survey as research for her paper in Professor Schor’s course, Consumption and Sustainability. In an excerpt from her writing, Meg concludes:

“Although students are relatively concerned about environmental issues, they see the fashion industry as the least-threatening culprit. Issues that have received the most public attention—transportation, energy efficiency, and food—were much more likely to be rated more important than household products and fashion. … The areas students feel are most important are the areas they have the least control over. This may be a way of shielding their sense of personal responsibility, and it could result in inaction on other areas of environmental concern. If students feel powerless to confront large issues, they may not be willing to make a concerted effort on smaller-scale issues. A high rating (4.01) of the effectiveness of The Green Show, however, does show that students are open to exploring new avenues of sustainable change.”

Project Title: ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY [ASTEP] –STUDENT CHAPTER Student Organizer: President, Kasey Brown, and ASTEP members Sponsors: ASTEP Description: This year we continued or support and mentorship of ASTEP@BC, a college chapter of a national organization whose goal is to create change with art. ASTEP’s mission is to empower young people with the tools of self-expression and decision-making necessary to lead healthy lives and to contribute to their communities. The programs they provide to organizations are based on theatre activities that allow kids to find new ways to use their bodies and voices so that they can discuss issues that are important to them. Currently ASTEP@BC has two ongoing placements: The Hawthorne Youth Community Center in Roxbury and the Laboure Center in South Boston. We are currently in a dialogue with St. Columbkille to begin an afterschool program at this location in October.

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Opportunities for events and programming typically arise during the academic year. However, we already solidified February 6th to bring the guest lecturer, Ishmael Beah, to campus. He was a child soldier in Sierra Leone and his experiences are documented in his book, A Long Way Gone. The event is cosponsored with the Arts and Social Responsibility Project and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

There are a couple of student projects in the works pertaining to issues in Africa, hunger and food choices.

The ASRP also hopes to find ways to document the impact of our initiatives on student formation and academic collaborations. This documentation will likely take the form of taped interviews or surveys.

I. Staffing II. Office Space III. Marketing IV. Website – the foundation of our social network V. Budget I. Staffing:

• The Chair of the Arts and Social Responsibility Project is Crystal Tiala who works on a volunteer basis.

• One student employee paid through Undergraduate Research Fellowships assists in the administration of events for 4 hours/week.

• The student board of advisors is composed of volunteers who have applied to serve on the board.

• The Faculty/Staff Board of Advisors is also entirely composed of volunteers.

II. Office Space Currently the ASRP is housed in the Arts Council office at 142 Beacon Street where we meet and use the Arts Council facilities for the student employee to work.

8. CONTINUING CHALLENGES

7. FUTURE ACADEMIC INITIATIVES

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III. Marketing This is the typical header of the email newsletter send by the Arts and Social Responsibility Project monthly. Michelle Muccini in the Center for Centers is working on a new header for our e-newsletter for a fresh and consistent new look.

The ASRP will be tapping into the new marketing distribution system recently adopted by the Arts Council Office. This will enhance our ability to get subscribers and create a better looking and more interactive email. We currently have about 250 subscribers but the goal is to get close to 1,000 by the end of this year. This is the primary mode of advertising that we use since it costs nothing but our time and goes to people who are specifically interested in this topic. In addition to our Facebook page and word of mouth, we rely heavily on our co-sponsors for the bulk of the advertising. The lack of having our own staff means we are not able to advertise as well as other groups on campus. We will continue to market our events best as possible with the hope that we will get more assistance with this in the future or try tapping into the Center for Center resources if they become available. IV. Website: Ellen McDonald, the administrative assistant for Howard Enoch in the Robsham Theater, has volunteered to help maintain and update the webpage for the ASRP. Hopefully this will enable us to keep up more effectively with the increased demand for information on the web. V. Budget Summary The expenditures for the Arts and Social Responsibility Project are shown on the next page.

• The ASRP was funded by the ILA for a total budget of $12,00.0 • Funds are managed by Susan Dunn of the Center for Centers who handles all

reimbursements, payments and transfers. • Other support is provided on a project by project basis by various sources and co-sponsors

across campus The ASRP would like to thank ILA, Mary Crane and the Center for Centers staff for their kind support of our efforts.

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Members of the Faculty/Staff Board of Advisors listed alphabetically are: • Anne Marie Barry: Professor of Communications, Assistant Director of Capstone Program • Andrew Boynton: Dean of the Carroll School of Management • Jeffery Howe: Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of Fine Arts • John Michalczyk: Professor and Co-Director of the Film Studies Program • Charles Morris: Associate Professor of Communications, • Nancy Netzer: Professor of Art History; Director of the McMullen Museum of Art

History and philosophy of museums • Zygmund Plater: Professor of Law • Jennie Purnell: Associate Professor of Political Science • Crystal Tiala: Chair of the Arts Council, Chair of ASRP, Associate Professor of Theater • Ellen Winner: Professor of Psychology & Director of the Graduate Program

Cognition in the arts

Student Employees: Kasey Brown, 2012; Psychology and Theater Arts, Minor: Women and Gender Studies, Faith Peace and Justice

Volunteer Student Board of Advisors: Kelsey Alexander, 2011; Biology, Environmental Science Andrea Bonaiuto, 2011; Marketing Kasey Brown, 2012; Psychology and Theater Arts, Minor: Women and Gender Studies, FPJ Angelina Hawley, 2013; Phd student, Developmental Psychology Elliot Purcell; 20114 – Theater Arts

9. ASRP BOARD OF ADVISORS & STAFF