Course explores Participatory Art & Creative Placemaking.Students will develop site-specific artworks in collaboration with The Prattsville Art Center in Prattsville, NY a small rural Catskill community still recovering from the devastating floods associated with Hurricane Irene. Socially engaged artwork as well as critical ideas institutions, & funders that have been central to these art movements will be discussed within this process. Through this course & collaboration students will explore art in relationship to town planning, social activism, entrepreneurship, & community revitalization.