Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Vesperi, Maria
Area of Concentration
Social Sciences
Abstract
This thesis is an ethnography of Elsewhere Museum, a nonprofit artist residency and public meeting space in Greensboro, North Carolina. I learned how this living museum, a former thrift store, negotiated its relations to its residents and visitors through participant observation and informal interviews. Elsewhere engages artists and visitors with art and their surroundings’ past, present and future(s) through forms of play, learning, and self and collective reflection. These methods are used purposefully to resist dominant frameworks of power distribution in intentional communities and in the art world.
Recommended Citation
Zelkowitz Howard, Ava, "NOT ANYWHERE, ELSEWHERE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC LOOK AT A COMMUNAL ARTS SPACE" (2018). Theses & ETDs. 5527.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5527