Research project on community arts

Burgerkracht Limburg and Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg in the Netherlands have commissioned MACCH steering committee member Joop de Jong a research project on community arts.

The research will map activities and actors, and analyse meanings, goals and effects of art projects with, in or by communities. What is the social impact of participation in these art activities? And what are the critical success and failure factors? The results should help to increase the efficacy of community arts policies of both organisations. The research has received an extra grant from the VSBfonds, one of the biggest private endowment funds in the Netherlands.