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ABOUT CHArt

CHArt is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged research hub that seeks to cultivate civic imagination, reimagine placemaking, and increase community cohesion via artistic, architectural, humanistic, and social science research..

ACTIVITIEs

CHArt supports faculty and staff research through small grants, collaborative research opportunities, and lightning research presentations.

CURRENT research

CHArt supports faculty and student research engaging local solutions and global discourses, methods, and practices focused on tangible and intangible heritages.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

CHArt engages students and faculty from multiple graduate degree programs across the University.

NEWS

CHArt’s affiliated faculty and students are busy pursuing research, winning awards and grants, and engaging communities.

ABOUT CHArt

CHArt works to advance public-facing projects to empower and amplify the voices of the diverse communities in our region.

“Heritage is something vital and alive. It is a moment of action, not something frozen in material form. It incorporates a range of actions that often occur at places or in certain spaces. … It is this tension between action and material representation that is an important element of heritage.”

– Laurajane Smith, The Idea of Heritage