Mission
& Vision
The mission of NO FEAR is to create “art for heart’s sake” by explicitly placing meaning and purpose at the heart of arts and arts education experiences.
We envision a future in which the WHO and WHY of artmaking, being participants and their intrinsic reasons for experiencing art, are re-prioritized into the WHAT and HOW of artmaking, being artistic works and their technical methods of production and presentation.
This integrative approach aims to renew the experiential, communal, and participatory nature of artmaking, and dissolve divisions between artists, audiences, educators, students, cultures, and societies at large.
Science
& Soul
Inspired by psychologist Carl Jung and his theory of individuation, NO FEAR’s conceptual framework for Experiential Arts and Learning (EA&L) aims to restore balance between the “Science” and “Soul” of artmaking.
EA&L re-places the WHO and WHY of artmaking at the heart of arts experiences, or what NO FEAR calls the “Soul” of artmaking, being participants and their intrinsic meanings and purposes for experiencing art.
With meaning and purpose in place, EA&L then turns its attention to the WHAT and HOW of artmaking, being the “Science” of artistic works and their technical methods of production and presentation.
EA&L reintegrates “Soul” back into the heart of arts and arts education experiences to restore balance with the metaphorical “Science Channel” of artmaking, which undoubtedly has produced remarkable artists and artworks over the millennia, while counterintuitively and often inadvertently, it has also fragmented artmaking (and mankind) in the process.