Thesis
Creative placemaking as a tool for social justice in performing arts organizations
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Dec 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001444
Abstract
Performing arts organizations have used public spaces to bolster audience development and perform under COVID-19 guidelines for audience safety-but can the use of space be explored as a tool for social justice? This paper explores how performing arts organizations can use creative placemaking as a tool to advance social justice through existing literature and in-depth case studies of performing arts organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Area. These case studies explore three growing fiscally sponsored organizations: Jazz in Fairmount, Artcinia, and Theatre in the X. Performing arts organizations can expand equitable access to the arts using creative placemaking, and equitable access is a form of social justice. If access to arts programming disrupts or displaces the existing culture or community, however, it could create a culture of dis-belonging in the existing community and further marginalize historically disenfranchised community members.
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- Title
- Creative placemaking as a tool for social justice in performing arts organizations
- Creators
- Elisabeth Galassini Oosthuizen
- Contributors
- Pamela Yau (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vii, 43 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts Administration; Arts and Entertainment Enterprise; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 991020034315204721