ACROP
Arts as Cultural Resources Outreach Program
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ACROP was a Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) program to bring
local artists or their work onto campus and into the classroom as cultural
informants for students of anthropology, sociology, urban studies, women's
studies, and especially learning communities, which proposed to combine
these classes with classes from other areas, such as creative writing and
composition classes, arts appreciation classes, and more. But more than
this, ACROP sought to identify current Tri-C student artists who may or may
not be developing their arts at Tri-C and engage them as voices of the
contemporary culture as well as locate dynamic artists off campus who
might benefit from attending classes at Tri-C and enrolling them and
involving them in ACROP projects.
Will Napoli was the ACROP program director and ACROP was run through
the Center for Community Research at the Metro Campus as part of the
Anthropology department. Through the program, Will had made a number of
periodicals available for student writers as contributors thus enabling the
use of this writing, collectively, in the classroom as well as providing editing
services. The offer is still open as the magazines are open to contributions
from anyone. At this time, the primary vehicles are Splendid!™, a magazine
of urban cultures, and City under the Lake™, a newsletter covering
emergent culture in Cleveland.
Cultural Resources
at this website:
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Cleveland, Ohio.