Relationships & Mentoring with Local Artists

Is able to seek out and build relationships with local artists and others in the community where they serve.

Ethnoarts personnel should be working closely with local artists, leaders, and other stakeholders. Foundational to ethnoarts is working alongside communities, and their involvement is critical to the success of any project as well as its long-term vitality.

Meeting a community and its arts

No Competency:
1. SIL Eurasia’s Discover Local Arts virtual training
2. Read the Creating Local Arts Together (CLAT manual), especially Step 1
3. attend events in your community which include artistic performances
Has knowledge about:
1. Create an Initial Community Arts List (ICAL)
2. Do the recommended activities in CLAT manual Step 1
3. Observe a mentor or other ethnoarts person work with a community
4. Read Spradley's The Ethnographic Interview
5. Attend EthnoArts Research Methods at DIU, Payap (or similar)
Can do with Assistance:
1. Do a CLAT project with a local community
2. Create a network analysis of all the artists and stakeholders in a community
3. T.A. EthnoArts Research Methods
4. Assist in research/creation workshop
Can do independently:

Relationship with artists

No Competency:
1. Go meet an artist and start a relationship!
Has knowledge about:
1. Learn a new-to-you artistic tradition from a local artist
Can do with Assistance:
1. Continually explore different creative outlets and seek to understand new artistic traditions.
2. Take a course in mentoring from Mentoring Matters.
Can do independently:

Mentoring artists

No Competency:
1. Review articles on the Mentoring Matters website.
Has knowledge about:
1. Read a book about mentoring
Can do with Assistance:
1. Teach ethnoarts skills and principles to local artists
Can do independently: