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Informal Arts Study From 2001-2002, ethnographers from The Field Museum's Center for Cultural Understanding and Change partnered with the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago to conduct a research study in the Chicago metropolitan region. Informal Arts: Finding Cohesion, Capacity and Other Cultural Benefits in Unexpected Places investigated adult participation in the “informal arts” (sometimes called “unincorporated arts”). The informal arts encompass such diverse experiences as acting in community theater, singing in a church choir, writing poetry at the local library, or painting portraits in a home studio. These popular creative activities fall outside traditional non-profit and commercial arts experiences, and yet, according to a National Endowment for the Arts Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, engage millions of amateurs and professionals alike (NEA, 1997). As the researchers discovered, these "hands-on" activities tap people's creative potential and expand our concept of artistic participation beyond the role of audience member. Based on two years of ethnographic data collection, researchers concluded that the informal arts occupy a significant place in the social infrastructure of communities, helping to build both individual identity and group solidarity. Read more about the study:
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