Creative Campus Corps



Creative Campus CorpsCreative Campus Corps (CCC), a group that includes a creative campus faculty task force, a committee of arts leaders on campus, and select student leaders will be charged with implementing and piloting a few key innovations for our developing program. 

The Corps will be made up of well-placed individuals on campus who have influence and authority over important resources and programs – managers and presenters of the performing arts on campus, faculty artists, deans and administrators in charge of student life, campus architects and facilities managers, public relations officers, gallery directors, and faculty who oversee curricular decisions.  The CCC is a key strategy for developing the capacity of Vanderbilt to embed art and creativity throughout the campus. 

During our planning phase, the CCC will choose a large-scale project to work on together – perhaps focusing on programming around a “theme” semester; initiating an arts and media festival; developing new courses that integrate artists – both on campus and off – with social scientists, natural and biological scientists and humanists; or working to transform the physical space of campus into an emporium of creativity – guerilla poetry, musical and theatrical performances in unexpected places, films and video art projected on campus buildings, instruments (guitars, pianos, drums) made available in public places for passersby to play.  

The precise  project will emerge from the planning groups, but it will be chosen in keeping with guiding criteria for the creative campus – it will be interdisciplinary; highlight creative practice; involve students as curators, artists and audience members; it will use public spaces in new and non-routine ways in order to encourage serendipity, surprise, and reflection.