{"id":3444,"date":"2016-07-18T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2016-07-15T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:06:20","slug":"an-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/07\/an-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"An invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like people, communities are complex. Communities are not only defined by location, but also by human relationships and needs. In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2013-08-21\/a-model-of-identity-and-community\">A Model of Identity and Community<\/a>&#8220;, David Pollard shares consultant Aaron Williamson&#8217;s definition of the four essential elements to a community: he states that communities are groups of people who come together based on shared intent, identity, interest, and experience\/capacities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/invitation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/invitation.png\" alt=\"invitation\" width=\"651\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/invitation.png 651w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/invitation-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pollard\u00a0also addresses the challenges of building community. Communities, he states, self-organize. Nobody can create a community, but people can craft<strong> invitations <\/strong>to welcome people into the group, and <strong>facilitate the experience<\/strong> to make it efficient, enjoyable, and beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>In the arts we often talk about the many ways we build community and facilitate experiences. And it&#8217;s true, the arts do build and enhance communities &#8211; in all their forms. Pollard&#8217;s description provides some essential language to one possibility of describing this work. What you think? How do you see the work of arts and culture as an invitation or a facilitator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like people, communities are complex. Communities are not only defined by location, but also by human relationships and needs. In &#8220;A Model of Identity and Community&#8220;, David Pollard shares consultant Aaron Williamson&#8217;s definition of the four essential elements to a community: he states that communities are groups of people who come together based on shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,548],"tags":[25],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-3444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"category-creative-community-fellows","9":"tag-community","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}