The Creative Equity Fund housed at the Seattle Foundation and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to foster a collaborative learning environment among funders and grantees to reassess and refine the goals of the Creative Equity Fund to ensure it aligns with the evolving landscape, needs, and opportunities within the field.
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum 2023-24 Cohort Announced
Together, Creative Generation and the International Teaching Artists Collaborative (ITAC) are pleased to welcome the 2023-24 cohort of the Young & Emerging Leaders Forum. Find out more about our new cohort!
Read moreAnnouncing 2023 Summer Capstone Project by Resident Destiny King
Creative Generation is pleased to announce its new project, “Amplifying the Voices of Black Pedagogy” to explore the arts education ecosystem of North Carolina, specifically from the perspectives of intergenerational licensed Black music educators, from varying years of experience, in the public school system. Through this project and work, Summer Resident Destiny King conducts the research and presents findings through blog posts that highlight each of the music educators interviewed, an art piece to represent the language of what is deemed as success in each educator’s classroom, and a digital framework to synthesize findings from the dialogue sessions.
Read moreAnnouncing 2023 Summer Capstone Project by Resident Danny Maggs
Creative Generation is pleased to announce the capstone project of Resident Danny Maggs. This project, “The Starving Artist: An Investigation into Multihyphenate Artistry” interrogates the concept of a “starving artist” and “true artistry” through literature review and interviews of multihyphenate artists. Through this capstone project, Danny will create and exhibit a profile for each of the artists interviewed, along with an artistic journey mapping of their artistry, and an analysis of the project’s main inquiries.
Read moreWelcome Our 2023 Summer Residents
Please help us welcome our 2023 Summer Residents! Through the Summer Residency Program, Creative Generation will work with individuals from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the sectors in which the organization works.
Read moreCollaboration with State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) & Creative Generation
The State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to conduct an organizational reflection process to document and aggregate the strong practices in virtual arts learning uncovered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this project, the two organizations will produce a reflection to aggregate learnings from members of SEADAE; synthesize ideas to guide members and respective stakeholders when designing virtual arts learning opportunities, considering technology and virtual integration in the standards review process, and developing standards-based assessments; and identify future inquiries.
Read moreGood News from the Collective!
In keeping with Creative Generation’s values, we want to celebrate and uplift the artistic/personal lives of our collective members. Several of them have received good news lately, so we want to share that work with our community.
Read moreArts Management Exchange 2023
OCU:DC, the chapter of Oklahoma City University’s Alumni Association, and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their collaboration to support a spring break professional learning program, the Arts Management Exchange.
Read moreAnnouncing the Creative Generation Fellowship Program
Creative Generation is pleased to announce its new Fellowship Program to recognize and collaborate with elder, senior, and veteran practitioners in our field who are seeking to share their knowledge, ways of knowing, and lived experiences with future generations.
Read moreArts Schools Network's Pilot Leadership Certificate Program Graduates First Cohort
Over the last 9 months, Creative Generation worked with a passionate group of arts school leaders who are committed to driving change in their schools and communities towards these ideals. The ASN Arts & Cultural Education Leadership certificate program is the first of its kind in the field. Creative Generation is proud to work in collaboration with ASN on this initiative.
Read moreOKC Charter School Engages in Collaboration to Enhance Arts-Integrated Learning Oklahoma City, OK
OKC Charter School Engages in Collaboration to Enhance Arts-Integrated Learning Oklahoma City, OK: Harding Fine Arts Academy (Academy), an arts-integrated charter high school, has engaged in a collaboration with Creative Generation in order to enhance existing arts-integrated curriculum for the benefit of the students and faculty.
Read moreCreative Generation Welcomes New Members To The Collective
The team at Creative Generation is pleased to welcome new members to the Collective and celebrate other members of the Collective in new roles - Caryn Cooper, Camea Davis, Heleya de Barros, Erica Joos, Thomas Kurtz, Ali Pavlich, Katie Rainey, and Maddie Pivonka!
Read moreThe ABC Institute and Creative Generation Team Up to Launch the School for ABC Leaders
The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Institute and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to design, pilot and implement the School for ABC Leaders. Through this project and work, the two organizations will craft a professional development and continuous education program to cultivate new and existing skill sets within the school leaders towards affecting sustainable change in their communities.
Read moreCreative Generation Supports Heuristic Inquiry of Liberation From and For The Arts
Creative Generation is pleased to announce the Capstone Project of our Resident for Research Analysis and Documentation, Audrey Maxner. This project, “Recognizing My Wholeness through Art-Making,” is a heuristic, arts-based self-study exploring the questions: “How can I begin to liberate myself,” and “How can I begin to liberate my art?” Through this qualitative study, Audrey engages with her disabled identity through the seven processes of heuristic inquiry.
Read moreCreative Generation Supports Effort to Aggregate Resources for Arts-Based Social Justice Education
Creative Generation is pleased to announce the Capstone Project of our Resident for Learning and Community Knowledge, Emma Lamberti. This project, “Arts Resources for Social Justice Arts Education (SJAE),” will provide public, free resources and lesson plans centered at the intersection of arts education and social justice.
Read moreCreative Generation Supports Educating Youth Through Arts-Based Wellness Practices
Creative Generation is pleased to announce the Capstone Project of our Resident for Communications and Community Engagement, Maddie Pivonka. Through this project, “Arts Practices to Improve our Daily Wellbeing,” will explore the perspectives of emerging practitioners at the intersection of wellbeing and the arts including dance, music, and visual arts.
Read moreCreative Generation Will Support Arts Schools Network for 2022 Annual Conference
Arts Schools Network (ASN) and Creative Generation are pleased to continue collaborating on the production of ASN’s annual conference being hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from October 25-28, 2022. Previously, ASN and Creative Generation have collaborated on the production of the 2020 virtual conference, the 2021 annual conference in Chicago, and numerous other professional development events, including the pilot year of the Arts & Cultural Education Leadership Certificate program. This continued collaboration stems from both organizations’ commitment to ongoing professional learning for arts school leaders and the need for rapid innovation in addressing the changing professional circumstances for these leaders.
Read moreCreative Generation and WolfBrown support Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Exploratory Phase of "Excellence in the Arts" Initiative
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has selected the collaborative team from Creative Generation and WolfBrown to design and lead an exploratory phase of work for “Excellence in the Arts,” a national scale arts integration initiative. The project will address how the arts can foster learning, creativity and engagement as well as academic, social, and emotional wellbeing for students in a post-pandemic education landscape.
Read moreThe William Penn Foundation, WolfBrown, & Creative Generation to Produce a Professional Development Series
The William Penn Foundation, in partnership with WolfBrown and Creative Generation is pleased to announce their new collaboration to produce a professional development series titled, “Reinventing Strong Practices: Equitable Access to Creative Opportunity.”
Read moreYoung & Emerging Leaders Forum 2022-2023 Cohort Announced
Together, Creative Generation and the International Teaching Artists Collaborative (ITAC) are pleased to welcome the 2022-2023 cohort of the Young & Emerging Leaders Forum.
The Young & Emerging Leaders Forum (YELF) is a 9-month program designed to establish a peer-to-peer network of young and emerging professionals within the fields of culture, education, and social change. Jointly hosted by Creative Generation and ITAC, YELF builds from a 2020-21 pilot program. The program will recognize young practitioners from across the fields and be responsive to the needs of the cohort, fostering a collaborative learning environment based in critical reflection intended to interrogate, mutually share and learn, and radically reimagaine future possibilities of one’s work.
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