Community- RUAP

Meet some members of the RUAP Community Community Faculty

The core objective and practice of RUAP is reciprocity.

RUAP enables our students, faculty, and guest artists to produce performances, projects, and classes in the community and bring community artists, youth supporters, and youth onto campus to teach our students about their experiences.

Community Building encompasses the sum of work we do at RUAP. However, there are special activities and strategies that work outside of our program areas of visiting artists, curriculum, class based and community-based projects. These activities more formally address building the relationship between the university and community partners and the role that art plays in public life. These activities include conferences, meetings, community faculty, professional development, and a core RUAP objective to increase community organizational capacity. These are opportunities for RUAP participants to reciprocally share their ideas and expertise to transform one another, the campus, and communities.

Meet some members of the RUAP Community:
"Recording is fun, and I'm helping the community out at the same time. It's something I love doing. It relaxes me. It's like a natural high." More...	"Making art is a constant act of making choices, refining, making decisions, fine-tuning. And there are many shades of gray in between the black and white...." More...	"I think each student takes something different away from the class....one of the challenges that the class poses is to bring into question the traditional notion of the artist-as-sole-creator." More...	"A contact such as this takes me well beyond the classroom and into new alliances in the art world, if not the community at large." More...
"Some of them looked forward to coming here after school and getting into the choir. I had kids coming up and asking 'Are we going to have choir? Are we going to have choir?'" More...	"They showed us a lot of stuff like … I don’t know how to explain…just do what they do. Get up on stage and not be embarrassed by what other people say. Just do it. Express yourself." More...	"....RUAP has helped me figure out what I needed to do. ...by myself I definitely would not have been as structured. The planning helps me figure out how the whole teaching process actually takes place." More...	". I look forward to the work. It’s not only that I am earning something as a credit. It is a whole thing working with the community and this is what I want to do in the future, helping the community. " More...
"I've been involved in a lot of different projects and RUAP's the best one I've seen. RUAP always says 'what do you have to say? What do you want to do? What do you want?'" More...	"... I think maybe the skulls are in remembrance of the people you like and love who have died. That's what I would think of them as." More...	"We go for deep rather than big. You can get into all kinds of trouble when you want to make a big show of something, instead of a deep, authentic connection." More...	"Here the emphasis is on working collaboratively...in order to create something meaningful to a lot of people, not just one artist." More...

Community Faculty is a title for artists, activists, cultural leaders, civic leaders, and leaders in social services from the RUAP partner organizations and communities (Watsonville, Salinas, Seaside, and Monterey). The Community Faculty concept enables RUAP to recognize the unique funds of knowledge held by individuals in the arts and in the social services who are making significant contributions to their communities and particularly to youth.

The Community Faculty Residency is an opportunity for RUAP to bring these individuals onto the campus to share their experiences with arts faculty, arts students, and the greater university community. Community Faculty in residence will participate in activities such as class lectures, workshops, demonstrations, and exhibitions in the campus and in the partnership communities. Community Faculty

participates at the invitation of the RUAP University Planning Team and receives an honorarium.

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