Draft Executive Summary: Shifting the Institute for Community Arts Studies to the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy
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Date
2006
Authors
Center for Community Arts & Cultural Policy
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Abstract
The University of Oregon's Institute for Community Arts Studies (ICAS) was established
in 1965 by a founding gift from the Lila Wallace Foundation as a research and public
service organization within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. ICAS exists to
promote and implement research, professional education, and community programs
concerned with public participation, appreciation, and understanding of the arts. Toward
this end, ICAS has supported such statewide research projects as the Community Arts
Study Program (1966-1968), and the Study of Arts Education in the Community (1984-
1986). In 1995, the Institute established a renewed focus on community arts and cultural
policy, in collaboration with the newly formed arts management graduate degree of the
Arts and Administration Program (AAD). ICAS On-line, which consists of an electronic
forum for discussion and dissemination of current community arts and cultural policy
issues, Culture Work, a periodic broadside, as well as an Institute archive, were created.
Opportunities now exist to re-envision ICAS as the Center for Community Arts and
Cultural Policy (CCACP) - an interdisciplinary, regional research and development
center dedicated to sustaining and strengthening the arts, culture, and heritage sectors of
the West.
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25 pages
Keywords
CCACP, ICAS