CLAT Simple Summary (Schrag and Rowe 2020, 55-56)

Question 1

The one-word summaries of the Creating Local Arts Together (CLAT) steps.

Answer 1

Meet
Specify
Connect
Analyze
Spark
Improve
Celebrate

Question 2

The CLAT steps (2020)

Answer 2

1. Meet a community and its artistic genres
2. Specify Kingdom goals
3. Connect genres to goals
4. Analyze genres and events
5. Spark creativity
6. Improve results
7. Celebrate and integrate for continuity

Question 3

CLAT steps with summary explanations (Schrag and Rowe 2020, 56)

Answer 3

1. Meet our community and its artistic genres. Explore artistic and social resources that exist in the community.
2. Specify Kingdom goals. Discover the kingdom goals that the community wants to work toward.
3. Connect genres to goals. Community chooses an artistic genre and activities that can help it meet its goals.
4. Analyze genres and events. Describe the event as a whole. Describe its artistic forms as Arts. Describe the forms in relationship to broader cultural context. Details knowledge of the art forms is crucial to sparking (inspiring) creativity. Is important for improving what is produced, and it is necessary for integrating new works into the community.
5. Spark creativity. Community implements activities to inspire creativity within the genres and event they have chosen.
6. Improve results. Community evaluates results of the sparking activities and makes them better.
7. Celebrate and integrate for continuity. Plan and implement ways that this new kind of creativity can continue into the future. Identify more contacts where the new and old art can be displayed and performed.

Question 4

Within Step 4 (Analyze genres and events), the four sections and their categories/tools (“Descriptions of Artistic Genres” (Schrag and Rowe 2020; Schrag 2013)
4A:

Answer 4

4A: Described the event and it’s genres as a whole.
4B: Explore the event genres through artistic domain categories:
Music, drama, dance, oral verbal arts, visual arts, and interrelationships between formal elements of the event
4C: Relate the event genres to its broader cultural context:
Artists, creativity, language, transmission and change, cultural dynamism, identity and power, aesthetics and evaluation, time, emotions, subject matter, community values, communal investment
4D: Explore how a Christian community relates artistically to its broader church and cultural context:
discover a Christian community’s arts, compare a Christian communities use of arts with that of the broader church and its surrounding communities, evaluate how a Christian community’s arts currently fulfills its purposes, apply a heart arts questionnaire to a Christian community, evaluate worship meetings using biblical principles, evaluate a Christian community using the worship wheel, assess a multicultural Christian community’s arts, interpret Scripture well, address theological objections.

Question 5

Within Step 4 (Analyze genres and events), the Seven Lenses, or “characteristics [that] relate fundamentally to forms of artistic communication” (Schrag 2013, 68)

Answer 5

1. Space
2. Materials
3. Participants
4. Shape of the event through Time
5. Performance features
6. Content
7. Underlying symbolic systems [USS]

Question 6

Basic questions using the 7 Lenses, or “characteristics [that] relate fundamentally to forms of artistic communication” (Schrag 2013, 68)

Answer 6

1. Space
   * Was the event inside or outside?
   * Where were the people placed in the location?
   * How did use of space change at different times?
2. Materials
   * What clothes, costumes, musical instruments, electronic media, amplification, and lighting did you notice?
   * Take photos and draw sketches if possible and desired.
3. Participants
   * Who was here?
   * How many people of each gender were there?
   * Age group?
   * Other demographic variable?
   * Social status?
   * What were they doing?
   * How are they interacting?
   * Who organized, advertised, and promoted the event?
4. Shape of the event through Time
   * How long did the event last?
   * When did the event occur?
   * What were the major internal sections of the event itself?
5. Performance features
   * What was everybody doing?
   * What activities were associated with this event, including pre- and post-event activities?
6. Content
   * What kinds of plot, text, morals, themes, and language(s) were used?
7. Underlying symbolic systems [USS]
   * What meetings may be associated with the elements above?
   * [How do these six lenses above interact with each other or combine to convey deeper meanings?]
   * [How is this community’s worldview conveyed through these lenses?]

Question 7

4B

Answer 7

4B: explore the event genres through artistic domain categories -

• Music
• Drama
• Dance
• Oral verbal arts
• Visual arts
• Interrelationships between formal elements of the event

Question 8

4C

Answer 8

4C: relate the events genres to its broader cultural context -

• Artists
• Creativity
• Language
• Transmission and change
• Cultural dynamism
• Identity and power
• Aesthetics and evaluation
• Time
• Emotions
• Subject matter
• Community values
• Communal investment

Question 9

4D

Answer 9

4D: explore how a Christian community relates artistically to its broader church and cultural context -

• Discover a Christian community’s art.
• Compare a Christian communities use of arts with that of the broader Church and its surrounding communities.
• Evaluate how a Christian communities arts currently fulfills its purposes.
• Apply a heart arts questionnaire to a Christian community.
• Evaluate worship meetings using biblical principles.
• Evaluate a Christian community using the Worship Wheel.
• Assess a multi-cultural Christian community’s arts.
• Interpret scripture well.
• Address theological objections.

Question 10

Careful Contextualization (Schrag and Rowe 2020)

Answer 10

• Gather information from and with locals about the forms and their current meanings.
• Study biblical teachings and principles with local people that relate to the forms in question.
• Evaluate with local people the meanings of local forms in light of the related biblical teachings.
• Encourage local people, based on what they have learned in the process, to make their own decisions to accept, reject, or alter the forms to create an appropriate, contextualized practice.