Chapter 4, A survey on Qualitative data and analytic Methods

"Analytic choices are what we generate  the most sufficient answers to your research Questions, and what will best represent and present the projects findings" (90).

Analyzing data is something that I think is important when conducting research. And having a lot of data and not knowing what to do with it can make or break your research. Framing you answers can help you to navigate your research to the answers you need.

"Category Construction is our best attempt to cluster the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly appropriate to you." (91).

This quote struct interesting to me because when you first begin you research you don't think of categorizing until you receive data. But the author here suggested that its good to categorize before you begin research in order to conduct a healthy process.  this way, you r research can be further analyze because you have Clusters of information to unpack.

"Coding and categorizing are heuristics to detect some of the possible patterns at work within the corpus, and an analytic memo further articulates your deductive,interview,and deductive thinking process on what things may mean."

This section helped me understand why the process of coding is important. Organisation of key phrases is important to analyze data but the idea of the coding being a thinking piece to the next step in research is good for progression and organisation. it is also goo to channel thought on anything new that may arrive in you process .

Research Design

Chapter 3: Research Design

Quote 1:" Finally your project must be something you yourself must be passionate about"(67).

entering my first stages of research, It is safe to say i held a very broad topic on arts engagement and the community.  But there was a lot of research already done. I began to make my research slightly more personal focusing directly on dance and the MCLA and Berkshire community. But then I began to loose passion. After some self reflection I was able to organize my own data and navigate the data I wanted to receive as well as the REAL question I wanted to ask, How do artist Develop in a community that is not their own? Out of the self reflection I generated the conversations that would get the answered to my questions, what questions to ask, who would I ask, What is the Importance. Also when i would hit a block in my research, personalizing the question or process was helpful to re-generate thought or further research. 

Quote 2: "It almost always takes longer than you think it will to get what you need done"(81).

I must admit, as a college student, I am guilty of being the ultimate procrastinator. Doing a research project has taught me how to manage work in a timely manor. It has also helped me to manage life thoroughly. It was really helpful that I manage a step By step agenda of everything I had to do for My research. this helped me to better analyze what I was doing and why I was doing it. Taking a glance at the assignment before you actually commence working on it is a part of process i learned, and it helps generate thought before doing the section of the research I would tackle.  Also going back was easy due to the fact that I have reference to my thinking because I recorded the process. 

Interview Protocol

Interview protocol

Question: How Do artist develop in a community that's not their Own?

Three interviewees

Mabel Francisco- Mabel and I come from similar backgrounds. Working with a large community of all artist to working with a community where less than half are artist. Mabel is not a physically engaged artist but still takes part in the artistic community of North Adams.  Mabel can give a firsthand account to the shift in transitioning communities.

Callan Garner- active artist in the MCLA community. MCLA is an extremely diverse community and produces great artistic work. Callen works well with fellow artist in number of plays that reflect the artistic diversity.  

Norton Owen- Staff director at Jacob's pillow. Jacob's pillow is the mecca to artist. hosing artist from around the globe. The community of Jacob's pillow can relate to the steps it takes to develop artistic work for a diverse community. Achieved efforts are reflected in many different festivals. “ Inside out. “

Questions to the artist.

How do you work with community

how would you describe yourself as an artist

How does community work influence artistic work.

how much time you you spend outside your community.

How Important is reciprocity to the artist and the community.

What can expect to gain from this.

Along with these questions, I plan to jot down keywords and phrases that can provoke a more personal follow up question for each participant.

INFORMED CONSENT FOR INTERVIEWS

Research in the arts presents :

How Do artist develop in a community that's not their Own?

I, _____________________________________, agree to be interviewed for the project  entitled Artist for Community which is being produced by Adazae Shepherd-Edwards of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

I certify that I have been told of the confidentiality of information collected for this project and the that I have been given satisfactory answers to my inquiries concerning project procedures and other matters; and that I have been advised that I am free to withdraw my consent and to discontinue participation in the project or activity at any time without prejudice.

I agree to participate in one or more electronically recorded interviews for this project. I understand that such interviews and related materials will be published in an academic journal or book.

I agree that any information obtained from this research may be used in any way thought best for this study.

• Please check here if you wish to be kept anonymous

________________________________________  Date ________________________

Signature of Interviewee

Literary Outline Pt 2

Title/Research Question: How Do artist develop in a community that's not their Own?

I. Introduction: There are a lot of arts organisations with community participants. There are also many arts communities without. I also hope to personally understand the need for artistic development by community influence.

A. Statement of Purpose: With this research I hope to Fuse the relationship between artist and community I also believe int important for artist to feel comfortable in order to fully be Immersed in the work tha

B. Need for your research: For my research I will need first had accounts on real artist in an arts community. Most will be Massachusetts College for Liberal Arts students. I will also need accounts from artist who run organisations that engage a lot with the community. This is important research to the community because communities have their own traditions, understandings and norms for artist to abide in while visiting said community. It is also important for artist to understand the context and audience before they begin constructing their work in the community.

C. Thesis I believe, that due to the fact arts organisations don't advertise and outreach to the community, artist don't feel comfortable to engage in communities that are not their own

II. Review of the Literature : Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose

 By James Bau Graves

A. Discussion of problem and context. The cultures and tradition of the people and the land are held in their art. if the community art; language and culture are altered, so is heritage. How ar artist helping and hurting these conditions? (Page 2)

B. Topic A: Review of relevant sources

Exercising your role as a member in the community first. (Artist entertain, Provoke thought, provide space for expression) Implementing your roll in the community, regardless of artistic skill. Stresses the importance of being invited into the community.

“We look for ways to Get involved in Community identity formation.” Also, talk to work with the artist in your community.

C. Topic B: Review of relevant sources

You are aesthetically helpful and pleasing to the community. As an artist you supplement, not replace the art that was currently flourishing in said community. “What made it a community was not magic, but labor… if your aesthetic process is open to that community, your work will not be superfluous. Your work might be useful

D. Topic C: Review of relevant sources

Lit outline #1

This outline was revised twice. The first one is posted below.

Title/Research Question: How Do artist function in a community that's not their Own?

I.  Introduction: There are a lot of arts organisations with community participants. There are also many arts communities without.

A. Statement of Purpose:With this research this research will bridge the gap and fuse the relation  between artist In any community.

B. Need for your research: For my research i will need first had accounts on real artist in an arts community. Most will be MCLA students. I will also need accounts from artist who run organisations that engage a lot with the community

C. Thesis It is to  be observed, that due to the fact arts organisations don't advertise  and outreach to the community, artist don't feel comfortable to engage in communities that are not their own

II. Review of the Literature

A. Discussion of problem and context

B. Topic A: Review of relevant sources

Exercising your role as a member in the community first. (Artist entertain, Provoke thought, provide space for expression) Implementing your roll in the community, regardless of artistic skill. Stresses the importance of being invited into the community.

“We look for ways to Get involved in Community identity formation.” Also, talk to work with the artist in your community.

C. Topic B: Review of relevant sources

You are aesthetically helpful and pleasing to the community. As an artist you supplement, not replace the art that was currently flourishing in said community.  “What made it a community was not magic, but labor… if your aesthetic process is open to that community, your work will not be superfluous. Your work might be useful

D. Topic C: Review of relevant sources

Statement of Purpose.

Central Research Issue: There are a lot of arts organisations with community participants. There are also many arts communities without. 

With this research I hope to bridge the gap between artist In ANY community. 

My research question as of this moment?

How do Artists develop in a Community that's not Their own. 

How do you work With community 

How many artist are active in communities that are not their own. 

How does the community reach out to artist. 

Entering the Matrix

This is a copy of my literary matrix. this was a method we used to organised the topics and scores fro our data. It was extremely helpful in trying to narrow my thesis.

My  research question: How do Artists develop artistically  in a Community that's not Their own. _

jawole zollar urban bush woman.

moving tward more global society.

contextualize the problem

not easy to work in communitues because we have own refence

** identify big idea. draw up what people say

	Source 1 Urban Bush Women: Twenty years of African American dance theater, community engagement, and working it out	Source 2 "The Sandglass exclusive: Mind games." American Theatre July-Aug. 2015: 33. General OneFile. Web. 5 Oct. 2015.	Source 3 Adams, D. & Goldbard, A. 2001, Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, The Rockefeller Foundation, NY	Source 4 Cumulative Dialogue: Liz Lerman’s Dance Exchange’s Hallelujah in Southeastern Michigan own artistic development **		Source 6 Jawole zolar. https://www.faithandleadership.com/qa/jawole-willa-jo-zollar-coming-together-create
Main Idea 1 How do you work with community	Exercising your role as a member in the community first. (Artist entertain, Provoke thought, provide space for expression) Implementing your roll in the community, regardless of artistic skill. “We look for ways to Get involved in Community identity formation.” Also, talk to work with the artist in your community	You are aesthetically helpful and pleasing to the community. As an artist you supplement, not replace the art that was currently flourishing in said community.  “What made it a community was not magic, but labor… if your aesthetic process is open to that community, your work will not be superfluous. Your work might be useful.	Culturally structure and reinvent a community. Build on or add to the already social aspects of community. “ community cultural development work is inevitably a responds to current social condition.”
Main idea 2 How many artist are active in communities that are not their own			America is a place full with refugees, artist migrate to different communities all the time.	Artist travel to other communities to create and use other ideas from that communitie. Artist in residence move for influence and inspiration. From 1999 through 2002, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange conducted Hallelujah, an unprecedented initiative in community-based artmaking and contemporary dance that directly engaged over 1000 participants in 15 U.S. communities from Deer Isle, Maine to Los Angeles, California.
Main idea 4 How does community work influence artistic work.						"I grew up in the ’50s in Kansas City during segregation, and the black community was very strong and very much connected.  That was important to me. It is about a community coming together to create."
Main idea 5 reciprocity						I’m a product of the Black Arts movement, which talked about that art is in relationship to the black community, so that was very much a part of it. I was very influenced by liberation theology.

Updates on Research

Here is an Update on Some research I'v been doing in my research for the arts class I am currently enrolled in at the Massachusetts College for the Liberal Arts. i will keep posting updates on these pieces as the project grows closer to being complete.

Ch 1: Qualitative Research Styles

Qualitative research is a vast term for the different approaches and methods of studying natural social life. Genres for Qualitative research include But aren't limited to

• Ethnography

Documentation of social life in order to render an account of social life.

• Culture

Social knowledge, not knowledge unique to an individual.  

• Phenomenology

The study of nature and the meaning of things.

• Case Study

Focus on a single unit for analysis.

• Etc..

Important section of this chapter would be  on Arts Based Research. The Author Jonny Sandala suggest that “Performing and visual arts media and methods sometimes collect, represent, and present their findings. “

Important to this would be evaluating research which focuses on people, Programs, Organisation, etc and asses the quality and effectiveness.  This is particularly important when  researching and Business or Arts organization due to the fact that there are so many different sections from the creative to financial sectors.

There are also many styles to Research such as ; realist ,confessional, and many many more. The all overall highlight how the information is present.  Overall, the research methods and styles must be compatible to the researcher for results to be successful.

CH 2: Data Collection And the Collector

Author Johnny Salander has very Particular Directions on how to collect your data through two particular methods. The One i'm going to blog about is the most common and probably the one i'm going to be using for my research, interview, but before we can collect the data, he suggest that we ourselves be observant of the type of data we want by simply identifying ourselves as a researcher. on page 32 he say that “ the researcher himself or herself who is generally regarded as the primary data collection instrument in Qualitative research. He says that research done by interview can range by Organising questions prior to the interview or (which I find more effective) Using  the general question and as conducting the interview  Writing down keywords to generate the conversation. I believe it brings a new stimuli to the conversation and may result in more direct data/ answers to your questions. When Transcribing the information the author suggest that you continuously refresh the content before documenting your findings. Lastly When managing your data the most important thing to do is to “Protect your data by saving it.” I would suggest this be in multiple area as to avoid  human error or unforeseen circumstances.