The Center for Civic Participation

Critical Encounters, Columbia College

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Beginning as an idea and initiative of the Provost's Office, Critical Encounters is a project that intends to be a model for interactive, community-inclusive civic engagement that exploits and explores the relationship between art and social science, artistic action and revolution.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS, Columbia College Chicago has launched Critical Encounters, a three-year project that will address HIV and AIDS through the lens of arts and civic engagement. With programs implemented through classes, projects, and public events, students will closely examine issues surrounding AIDS and HIV in their first year. In the remaining two years of the project, students will study the complicatingfactor of poverty, and will search for ways to address the issue. "Art for art's sake is fine," says provost Steve Kapelke, "But Columbia has always followed the notion that art generates change. And Critical Encounters will help students tackle the topic of AIDS/HIV."

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