Community art

Community art is any for of art which takes place within a community setting. It can also be known as 'Dialogical art' or as 'Community based art' and became popular in the late 1960's when it's popularity spread throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. The term art covers a large range of genres from painting and sculptures to performing arts.

The reason we have community art is so that the wider community will get interested, and therefore more involved in art. This may be achieved by doing projects on the street or in galleries, much like what the Big Draw project does. However since the introduction of the Internet, there are online communities which enable people to come together and be involved in community art.

Community art allows those who live in deprived areas a chance to get involved in something which may not have been openly available to them normally. Although this may not always be the case, more often than not this is logic behind community art projects.