EMPOWERING
CREATIVE
EXPRESSION

The importance of education in societal development is undeniable. Providing the community access to the tools and knowledge to fabricate in whatever medium their hearts desire, for artistic and structural applications, allows for the participant to experience their environment differently. By recontextualizing material and process the meaning is challenged and changed. Each aspect of our lives has an industrial process root. In the same way that Post-Capitalism has translated “progress” from capital gain to community health, industrial practice is transformed through education to foster community Art. The goal of these collective projects is to further sustainable community engagement; to give back through social justice and to be able to maintain a lifestyle that values art making and creativity. Unexpected encounters, a Dadaist respect for absurdity, Relational Aesthetics of the social artifact, and the general valuation of every person’s creative expression contribute to fostering a break from the capitalistic norm with Industrial Arts Montana.