What is
Experiential Arts?
Experiential Arts is an integrative approach to artmaking that serves to connect, reflect, and relate human experiences in meaningful and purposeful ways.
Elijah, Age 18, New Orleans, LA
Experiential Arts (EA) re-prioritizes communal participation at the heart of arts experiences.
EA dissolves divisions in the arts and arts education, including the illusive “fourth wall” that separates artists and audiences in live performances.
EA invites artists and arts educators to make art with audiences and students — rather than for or at.
EA can be applied to all mediums of art and areas of arts education and requires minimal resources or expenses to facilitate.
EA can be facilitated in fields outside of the arts and help organizations cultivate meaning and purpose within their work and the populations they serve.
What is
Experiential Learning?
“Experience precedes understanding.”
- Jean Piaget
Experiential Learning is a framework for how humans learn, develop meaning, and create purposeful change throughout their lives. based on the cyclical process of experiencing, reflecting, and renewing understanding.
Elijah, Age 18, Milan (Italy)
NO FEAR’s conceptual framework and methodology for Experiential Arts and Learning (EA&L) applies psychologist Carl Jung’s theory of individuation to arts and arts education systems as they’ve developed in westernized societies to date.
Additional influences on NO FEAR’s aesthetic and educational philosophy include: John Dewey, Maxine Greene, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Paulo Freire, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Isabel Wilkerson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lao Tzu, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Victor Frankl, Herman Hesse, Kenny Werner, Victor Wooten, Danny Barker, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Haidt, and more.
*References list forthcoming
What are examples of
Experiential Arts?
Participatory Music Performances
Social Dance Practices
Experiential Visual Art
Standup and Improv Comedy
Immersive Theater
Interactive Food and Cooking Demonstrations