Arts organizations are moving toward a more open space through community outreach programs. This space allows for art-focused dialogue to occur that facilitates interaction between people. This dialogue then opens the door for new relationships to transpire. The move toward dialogical and relational space in arts organizations is based on demographic, economic, and ideological changes in arts fields that reflect a growing opportunity for democratization through the arts. This study utilizes a website and mission statement review, survey responses, and a case study to explore how arts organizations (including museums, arts centers, artists' communities, arts councils, and art and craft schools) are serving community needs by creating a relational and dialogical space within and outside of their walls.

Thèse (M.A.Plas.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005. / Bibliogr.: f. 54-55. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

This research which taking the "Artists Community"(Arts Village) of Taiwan as a case study refers to the management in pattern of American Artists Communities and visits each place of Arts Villages in Taiwan for understanding the present situation and also having a profound talk with artists, administrators, scholars and so on. It precisely knows that the expectation for Arts Village in the heart of people in order to take pulse for Taiwan's Artists Communities and to find out the position of blind views, and also to provide suggestion for the reference of external management. First of all, in order to understand the variety and multi-function of the artists community this research try to find out the origin and definition of the artist-in-residence and the evolution of the cases established in US, England, France and Japan and so forth, and presents the classifying types of artists community and its developing approach. According to the elements of (1) region, (2) urban and country, (3)festival, (4) management, (5) ecology, and furthermore, this research presents the problems of administration and management in Artists' Communities and also analyzes some typical cases of Taiwan's Artists Communities. For example, these mainly problems included with the strategy of management, the planning programs, the artist-in-residence procedure, revival of ruinous space and historical buildings etc. Finally, this research examines and analyzes the present situation of Arts Villages in Taiwan Area and methods of artists-residence, and which are worth of being conferred in conclusion. The presentation of this research paper expects to offer a few ordinary introductory remarks so that others may offer their valuable ideas and stimulate a great number of people who have much interest for investigation and discussion on the subjects of Artists Communities, and make the management of Taiwan's Artists Communities more perfect, developmental and lively.