Earlier this year the International Teaching Artist Collaborative invited proposals for field building projects from leaders throughout our international community.
With a tremendous response, six innovators were selected. Each project represents a significant step forward in adding tools, resources and frameworks that can be used internationally to support the field of teaching artists.
Through the Gen C Institute, Creative Generation’s Managing Director, Jeff M. Poulin, will be leading an initiative titled, “Knowledge Sharing and Digital Learning Project.”
This project will address the gap in research and resources produced by and for the field of teaching artistry. The project will engage volunteers in the teaching artist field from a cross-section of countries to collect, validate, and disseminate tools, resources, and creative/scholarly research in a number of capacities. These include retrofitting the existing knowledge shared through the 2019 Think Tanks, building each into a digital learning module; cataloguing, publishing and disseminating research and resources shared through the 2018 and 2020 ITAC conferences; and devising a sustainable and scalable framework for a clearinghouse of new tools and resources created by and for the field of teaching artistry to be located within ITAC’s digital platform.
The International Teaching Artists Collaborative - or ITAC - became a year round organisation in 2018, as a result of the appetite created by ITAC’s previous biennial international conferences. It is the first international network created by and for teaching artists, and artists who work in participatory settings, to develop their practice, create connections and develop our field.