MassArt offers a class which engages students across all majors in service learning. Called “”Art and Community,”" students develop individual projects based on community needs and their own artistic goals, and implement them over a ten week period. Now in its third year, projects have included a glass major working with urban teens to create glass tiles for their youth center, a painting major teaching drawing classes to female prison inmates, and an art history major bringing children from public housing on weekly visits to art museums. Other service learning classes include a graphic design class working with a community based youth agency to create brochures and posters, an illustration class creating illustrations, which will be used in a calendar to raise money for the neighborhood, and a wood sculpture class building a twelve-foot gazebo for a homeless shelter. A freshman class on Color Theory also worked with a homeless shelter for residents with mental illness, and created a mural utilizing their knowledge. In all of these cases, students were inspired to continue their involvement with the community in greater depth once the classes were over.

Website: http://www.massart.edu/at_massart/ (“”Community Partnerships”" is in the left sidebar)