Ryan Evans

United States °1990
research interests: Participatory Art, Socially Engaged Art, Art for Social Change, Applied Arts, Community Art
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Ryan Evans is an arts researcher and participatory artist. He is a research scientist with Wilder Research, where he leads projects with nonprofits, foundations, and public agencies that focus on the arts, culture, and disability. Ryan also leads Recreation Arts, a participatory arts group that does art with older adults living with disabilities and chronic health conditions. He has a master’s degree in applied anthropology and community arts from the University of London – Goldsmiths College. He has completed additional graduate-level coursework in participatory research, nonprofit management, and organizational development.

 

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  • quiet citadel (2022) author(s): Ryan Evans published in: Research Catalogue
    'quiet citadel' is a site-specific, participatory music project that examines music-making and the purposes that music can serve. I made 'quiet citadel' as part of the Hinge Arts Residency with Springboard for the Arts. They describe the fellowship as a community development program that activates arts programming related to the historic Fergus Falls State Hospital, or "the Kirkbride." Presented in four sections, this exposition offers a case study of how I instrumentalized my music-making and music-sharing to assist the residents of Fergus Falls, a small town in rural Minnesota, in determining what to do with the disused Fergus Falls State Hospital, or "the Kirkbride." All told, this exposition provides an example of using music as a research method for the purposes of collectively imagining the future of a community asset.
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