Mission Statement

"University of Maine art education community outreach (UMAECO 2016), strives to elicit global change through local action and awareness. These students aim to achieve this by creating opportunities for collaborative art engagement and facilitating diverse cultural storytelling with elder community partners."

The students of the UMAECO class of 2016 have decided to pursue collaborative arts projects that work with communitys of elders. This population has the knowledge that comes with age and experiance and we would like to facilitate the sharing and exploration of their personal stories through collaborative art pieces. We seek to work with diverse groups of elders utilising art making processes to bridge the expanding gap between our generation and theirs.

In order to do this we will be researching the benefits of story telling, exploring different ways to facilitate this amoung diverse populations, working with elders to create artwork, helping to document their stories, and presenting our experiances and findings in multiple formats.

We hope that you will follow us on our journey!

"Every Child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up"

-Pablo Picasso

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