ART 412 Topics in Studio Art Building Community Through Community Art Practice and Creative Placemaking Muhsana Ali, USM Art Department Artist-in-Residence In this seven-week 3 credit course offered Fall 2016, students will work with artist Muhsana Ali and Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt, USM Assistant Professor of Social Work and her class in facilitating a mural by community members of East Bayside, Portland. Students will engage residents though pop-up studios located in spaces frequented by community members, help develop relationships in the community, and encourage mural participation through drawing, Senegalese glass painting workshops, contributing artifacts, and construction. Students must be able to do ﬁeld work in East Bayside, a 36 minute walk from the USM Portland campus. Interested students without the prerequisites can obtain permission from the Art Department Chair Kim Grant by emailing [email protected]. Muhsana Ali was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in Senegal. She holds a BFA degree and a MA in art education. Muhsana’s work covers a broad spectrum of mediums including large-scale alternative mosaic murals, using a variety of materials including under-glass painting, found objects, tile and mirror. During a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997, Muhsana traveled to over 7 different African countries researching traditional and contemporary African art. In 1999 she produced a 2-year exhibition project in an abandoned building with Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) street youth. Her experience with this group of drug-addicted, crime and violent-prone youth, shifted her creative focus to working primarily within given communities as a means of achieving a level of social transformation. In 2002, Muhsana relocated to Senegal, where she later became the co-founder of Portes et Passages du Retour (Doors and Passageways of Return), a rural Center for Art and Holistic Development. Ali is recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. http://www.portesetpassagesduretour.com/enMuhsanaAli.html & http://muhsanaali.blogspot.com

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ART 412 Topics in Studio ArtBuilding Community Through Community Art Practice and Creative Placemaking

Muhsana Ali, USM Art Department Artist-in-Residence

In this seven-week 3 credit course offered Fall 2016, students will work with artist Muhsana Ali and Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt, USM Assistant Professor of Social Work and her class in facilitating a mural by community members of East Bayside, Portland.

Students will engage residents though pop-up studios located in spaces frequented by community members, help develop relationships in the community, and encourage mural participation through drawing, Senegalese glass painting workshops, contributing artifacts, and construction.

Students must be able to do field work in East Bayside, a 36 minute walk from the USM Portland campus. Interested students without the prerequisites can obtain permission from the Art Department Chair Kim Grant by emailing [email protected].

Muhsana Ali was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in Senegal. She holds a BFA degree and a MA in art education. Muhsana’s work covers a broad spectrum of mediums including large-scale alternative mosaic murals, using a variety of materials including under-glass painting, found objects, tile and mirror. During a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997, Muhsana traveled to over 7 different African countries researching traditional and contemporary African art. In 1999 she produced a 2-year exhibition project in an abandoned building with Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) street youth. Her experience with this group of drug-addicted, crime and violent-prone youth, shifted her creative focus to working primarily within given communities as a means of achieving a level of social transformation. In 2002, Muhsana relocated to Senegal, where she later became the co-founder of Portes et Passages du Retour (Doors and Passageways of Return), a rural Center for Art and Holistic Development. Ali is recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

http://www.portesetpassagesduretour.com/enMuhsanaAli.html & http://muhsanaali.blogspot.com