In the fall (2007) I will be teaching an undergraduate honors class "Art and Community." This honors course will engage students in exploring the community lives of historical and contemporary artists through reading, research, and writing. We will then engage in communally-generated art making activities with and in the Richmond community. In other words, we will meet, talk about, and listen to community needs, formulate a plan and then work with the community to complete one or more artmaking activities such as murals, performance-based work such as a garden or cleanup project, work with children, hospitals, shelters, and/or call attention to community issues. Exhibition of the work and research papers generated in the class will be done online. In addition, we will be exploring what it means to serve in the virtual environment of Second Life!