Founded out of the Community Arts Partnerships office of the College for Creative Studies (CCS/CAP) in 2008, community+public arts:DETROIT (CPAD) brings the arts, communities, and youth together to produce high-quality public art projects and events that allow neighborhoods to express and develop their unique character and potential through the arts. CPAD projects reach beyond the typical arts audience; involve neighborhoods in unique ways; and engage with their sites, taking into account specific communities, the environment, and political and social histories. CPAD is uniquely structured to produce work that is artistically authentic and significant, while being truly community-driven and addressing specific community needs and opportunities. Working with its partner communities, CPAD placed 22 highly visible, long-lasting public art projects in under-resourced Detroit Neighborhoods. In 2012, CPAD’s Performing Arts initiative was developed in partnership with The Carr Center. CPAD brought Michigan performing artists and Detroit communities together in creative partnerships that were linked to CPAD’s existing visual arts projects to support on-going engagement in these “art places.”

 

This case study approach was designed to document CPAD’s model and community engagement strategies, to describe the process of generating and placing art in the six neighborhoods, and to capture community level impacts of CPAD within each targeted Detroit neighborhood: Brightmoor, Chadsey-Condon, Cody-Rouge, North End, Osborn, and Southwest.

Founded out of the Community Arts Partnerships office of the College for Creative Studies (CCS/CAP) in 2008, community+public arts:DETROIT (CPAD) brings the arts, communities, and youth together to produce high-quality public art projects and events that allow neighborhoods to express and develop their unique character and potential through the arts. CPAD projects reach beyond the typical arts audience; involve neighborhoods in unique ways; and engage with their sites, taking into account specific communities, the environment, and political and social histories. CPAD is uniquely structured to produce work that is artistically authentic and significant, while being truly community-driven and addressing specific community needs and opportunities. Working with its partner communities, CPAD placed 22 highly visible, long-lasting public art projects in under-resourced Detroit Neighborhoods. In 2012, CPAD’s Performing Arts initiative was developed in partnership with The Carr Center. CPAD brought Michigan performing artists and Detroit communities together in creative partnerships that were linked to CPAD’s existing visual arts projects to support on-going engagement in these “art places.”

 

This case study approach was designed to document CPAD’s model and community engagement strategies, to describe the process of generating and placing art in the six neighborhoods, and to capture community level impacts of CPAD within each targeted Detroit neighborhood: Brightmoor, Chadsey-Condon, Cody-Rouge, North End, Osborn, and Southwest.