Special Issue of Arts Education Policy Review Focuses on Community Arts Education in COVID

In this special edition of Arts Education Policy Review (AEPR), contributors bring together a variety of perspectives from community-based arts organizations around the world to highlight and reflect upon the ways in which they, their organizations, their localities, and the youth they serve responded to the COVID-19 pandemic between March - September of 2020. The issue was co-edited by Dennie Palmer Wolf of WolfBrown and Jeff M. Poulin, managing director of Creative Generation.

These articles reflect the uncertainty that marked the early months of the pandemic - a time when youth-centered arts organizations sought to balance cultivating creative skill-building, inquiry, and expression with providing essential services akin to those of food pantries, internet hubs, and financial clinics. In making that transition, old habits and assumptions gave way to fundamental questions about the definitions of art, arts education, community, leadership, funding, and policy.

While the Special Edition will not be available in its entirety until later this year, the individual articles are free to access from Tuesday, February 16th - Friday, April 30th, 2021.

The following articles are featured in the edition and can be asked through the links below:

More about Arts Education Policy Review (AEPR): AEPR is a journal dedicated to the discussion of major policy issues concerning P-12 education in various arts in the United States and the rest of the world. Addressing education in music, visual arts, theatre, and dance, the journal presents a variety of views and emphasizes analytical exploration.