ABSTRACT
On a beautiful tuesday morning in early July, several student grantwriters and their instructor from a service-learning course gathered during their class time at a huge warehouse in an industrial section of their city. The space they were about to tour—the former administrative and manufacturing headquarters of a local sportswear company—had been donated to their community partner, whose vision was to create an inclusive space for both emerging and established artists to come together outside of the competitive world of commercial galleries and conservative museums. This prospective artistic community center, which was to include spaces for exhibitions and performances and a resource center for working artists, now sat in front of them, behind a massive (and locked) front door. Those assembled waited 5, 10, 15 minutes. A few more students showed up. They all waited a bit longer. Now the community partner was really late. So were about half of the students from the class.
