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Mardi Gras Indian Arts Intensive
This eight-week intensive program is for students who want to:
LEARN THE BASICS OF MARDI GRAS INDIAN COSTUME DESIGN: During hands-on sessions, students will learn how to imagine, design, and create a Mardi Gras Indian costume from start to finish.
MOVE BEYOND DESIGN: Lectures, video screenings, and conversations with guest speakers will help students understand the rich costume and parade traditions of Mardi Gras Indians, including Native American and African-Caribbean influences.
Beginning June 1, 2009, students will meet Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the studios and classrooms of the Xavier University Art Village. he intensive ends July 31, 2009.
The Summer School is open to youth ages 11-14. Interested youth must apply. You can request an application or more information by calling (504) 520-7552 or emailing svantree@xula.edu.
Applications are due May 28, 2009. Enrollment is limited.
Tuition for the camp is $50. Need-based scholarships are available. Interested youth must apply.
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The Summer School is offered by the Department of Art at Xavier University through its Community Arts Program. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Art/Vision/Voice
The work of Xavier's CAP is featured in a newly released casebook which Xavier also had a hand in writing and producing. This casebook offers the first inside view into the philosophy, underlying values, and practices pioneered in Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) programs created in 1999 with Wallace Foundation funding at six institutions of higher education across the United States. A unique educational resource, this book can be used by students of community arts, as well as by educational and community organizations seeking insights into the field. In addition to case studies from CAP programs at California State University, Monterey Bay, Columbia College Chicago, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Xavier University of Louisiana, the book includes an introduction by Arlene Goldbard, which illuminates the rich history of the community arts field, a brief history of the CAPs, an afterward by Amalia Mesa-Bains, as well as commentary by Karen Lee Carroll, Sandi McFadden, and Tomie Arai. Published by Maryland Institute College of Art and Columbia College Chicago, with support from The Nathan Cummings Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.