SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

this movement carries profound implications and fresh opportunities for the nonprofit arts sector. hannah rudman a consultant in the united kingdom asserts that co-creation is not as much about giving up control as it co-creation audience members contribute something to an artistic experience curated by a professional artist. within the three participatory stages of the audience involvement spectrum crowd sourcing co-creation and audience-as-artist audiences may engage with the art at various levels of interactivity or creative control: curatorial engagement selecting editing organizing voting interpretive engagement performing remaking an existing work of art or inventive engagement creating something entirely new. how can the communitys creativity be reflected back to it in a way that benefits your organization. new paradise laboratories an experimental performance company in philadelphia is exploring the use of the web to create original online participatory theater programs that can interact with their real-time theater events and stand on their own as web-based art work.