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Consultant: Christina Bechstein
| Name: | Christina Bechstein |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Department: | Sculpture |
| Organization: | Maine College of Art |
| Phone: | (207) 899-0509 |
| Email: | cbechstein [a] gmail.com |
| Address: | 44 Park Ave. Portland, ME 04101 |
Brief Biography:
Christina Bechstein has taught in art, design and architecture programs across the United States and currently at Maine College of Art. In addition to reality based public art projects, her curricula include training in the fundamentals of project management and reflection necessary in community art making. As an artist, her public installations, including SOCIAL FABRIC and SODADI, have investigated the role of place making in community building. She is committed to artistic and creative processes that convene diverse community members in the act of co-creating and transforming public space. She is able to consult on creative planning, community involvement and curriculum creation in and integrating the arts.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- K-12 school teacher or administrator
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Faculty Member
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Community organizing
4. Related knowledge
- Faculty development
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Institutional change in higher education
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
- Reflection
- Partnership development
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Public arts / theater
- Immigration / migration
- K-12 education
- Environment
6. Types of campuses
- Urban
- Public
- Four-year
- Private
7. Academic areas
- Consulting Corps Education
- Arts and design
Thanks to Campus Compact for all that you have done over the years to nurture the campus service and service-learning movement. When we started at St. A's 15 years ago there was a feeling among some campuses that we were seeing higher education's latest 'flash in the pan.' Instead it was the beginning of a revolution of ideas and relationships, and you guys have been fueling us all the way.
-Daniel Forbes, Director, Meelia Center for Community Service, Saint Anselm College