Appell Center for the Performing Arts and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to produce an actionable plan elevating community knowledge and inform a set of tools to create a community hub for arts and cultural education in York County, PA.
Read moreIntroducing Creative Generation's 2022 Summer Residents!
We’re thrilled to welcome our 2022 Summer Residents, who started this week!
Creative Generation encourages systemic change by working within and disrupting the current structures of the arts/cultural, education, and social change sectors. Recognizing the negative impacts of traditional internship structures, the organization seeks to mentor new professionals with the necessary tools, training, and resources that will aid them in changing the landscape for the future.
Read moreCreative Generation Announces New Podcasts To Support a Wider Audience
In 2022, Creative Generation will host numerous podcasts to bring listeners around the globe to learn how arts, culture, and creativity — especially as applied by young people — can change the world, one community at a time. The below four podcasts share timely news and dive deep into the work of young creatives who apply their creativity to catalyze social change and those who are committed to cultivating their creativity. Listeners are invited to learn and laugh while being inspired and envisioning new futures together.
Read moreCreative Generation Welcomes New Members to the Collective
The team at Creative Generation are pleased to welcome new members to their Collective and celebrate other members of the Collective in new roles!
Read moreBIAESN Launches New International Exchange with Support from Creative Generation
The International Arts Education & Disability Justice Exchange, which will commence in March 2022, provides space for peer-to-peer networking and knowledge sharing among practitioners advancing both arts education and disability justice around the world. The exchange is connected with and supported by BIAESN and seeks to move the field of practice forward through regular meetings, documentation and publication of practices, and virtual spaces to exchange ideas, resources, and opportunities.
Read moreInnovation Collaborative and Creative Generation Work to Build and Engage STEAM Audiences
The Innovation Collaborative and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to build and engage science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education audiences. Through this project and work, the two organizations will strengthen the communications infrastructure of the Innovation Collaborative to advance STEAM education in their communities.
Read moreCreative Generation Continues to Collaborate with the International Teaching Artists Collaborative on Knowledge Sharing and Digital Learning
Together, Creative Generation and the International Teaching Artists Collaborative (ITAC) are pleased to announce their continued collaboration to share knowledge and increase opportunities for digital learning.
Read moreCreative Generation Receives the 2022 Friend of TAEA Award
The Tennessee Art Education Association presented Creative Generation with the 2022 Friend of TAEA Award.
TAEA presented the award in a virtual ceremony, saying, “we thank you for your partnership through the Social Justice Art Education Institute, where you helped us to build the collective capacity of our educators through equity, diversity, and inclusion. We thank you for your leadership.”
Read moreCreative Generation Examines the Use of Network Theory to Support Young Creatives
Creative Generation is pleased to announce the Capstone Project of our former Communications & Operations Resident, Parker Stephen Nolan. The project, titled Network Theory: How Can Its Application Cultivate the Conditions to Support Young Creatives?, will produce a final report based on findings from five interviews with network leaders. The report will include vocabulary for utilizing Network Theory, abstract models from each interview, observations of the trends that enable greater success in existing networks, and considerations on how to better support young creatives through Network Theory.
Read moreCreative Generation Looks at Leadership Transition
Creative Generation is pleased to announce a new project to examine and reflect on what occurs during the leadership transition between executive directors of arts & cultural education organizations and their alumni successors. Through this project, a research report describing cases of this leadership transition as well as a proposal for a guide for future organization leaders undergoing a similar leadership change will be generated.
Read moreCreative Generation team with SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning to Provoke Conversations in Missoula, Montana
SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to present provocative conversations during National Arts in Education Week and beyond. Through this work, the two organizations will facilitate several conversations to expand the discourse about arts education throughout Missoula, Montana’s cultural and education community.
Read moreCreative Generation Supports Bloomingdale School of Music
Bloomingdale School of Music (BSM) and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to facilitate and document future plans for the work of the institution related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Read moreCreative Generation Collaborates with Arts Schools Network on their Annual Conference
Arts Schools Network (ASN) and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their continued collaboration to produce the annual ASN conference being hosted in Chicago, Illinois, USA from October 25-29, 2021.
Previously ASN and Creative Generation have collaborated on the production of the 2020 annual conference and numerous other professional development events. 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 moreFlorida Alliance for Arts Education and Creative Generation Pilot Leadership Training Program
The Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE) and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to pilot the “Creative Leadership Training” program to commence at FAAE’s conference from September 23-25, 2021 in Ft. Myers, FL and conclude in Fall 2022. Through this work, the two organizations hope to build skills in the next generation of arts education leaders in the State of Florida and refine the certificate program design.
This program utilizes a curricular framework derived from a 2020 study commissioned by the World Alliance for Arts Education and conducted by Creative Generation, titled “Reorienting Leadership in Arts and Cultural Education.”
“Reimagining the pipelines to leadership is so critical in the current moment of the arts education field,” said Jeff M. Poulin, managing director of Creative Generation. “We, at Creative Generation, are excited to collaborate with FAAE to disrupt problematic cycles of leadership development and move towards new ideals.”
Creative Generation was founded in April 2019 as a research initiative and has grown its work throughout the United States and around the world. Through pioneering research in the arts and cultural education field – and the relentless support of arts and cultural educators in their work to cultivate the creative capabilities of young people – the organization regularly conducts original research and creates curricular frameworks for shared delivery with collaborators around the world.
“Creative Generation is a global leader innovating in the arts education field,” said Caroll Vick, secretary of the Board of FAAE. “We are incredibly excited that our partnership allows for educators across Florida to be able to benefit from this program.”
About Creative Generation
Contributing to the development of thriving communities and a more just world, Creative Generation works to inspire, connect, and amplify the work of young creatives who catalyze social transformation and those who are committed to cultivating their creative capabilities. Founded in 2019, Creative Generation operates four signature programs: The Campaign for a Creative Generation, the Institute for Creative Social Transformation, The Academy for Creative Leadership, and an Incubator for Creative Impact.
About the Florida Alliance for Arts Education
The mission of FAAE is to strengthen and promote arts education through diverse local, statewide and national partnerships collaboratively working to enhance school and community arts education programs and develop services that encourage equitable access to high-quality arts education learning experiences for more students throughout Florida.
Creative Generation to produce 10th World Summit on Arts Education
The University of Florida (UF), the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and Creative Generation are pleased to host the 2021 World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) Virtual World Summit, titled “Arts Impact: Context Matters” from October 11-15, 2021. This is the 10th World Summit on Arts Education.
Read moreCreative Generation and Progressive Arts Education Coalition to Co-produce Collective Visioning Roundtable
The Progressive Arts Education Coalition (PAEC) and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to produce a virtual town hall on Monday, September 13, 2021. Through this project, they hope to elevate the perspectives of grassroots arts education practitioners about the future of the American arts education field
Read moreCreative Generation Launches New Research Initiative on Arts Education and the SDGs
Creative Generation is pleased to announce a new project titled “ArtsEd x SDG,” the first phase of which has been taking place from June to September 2021. This project’s goal is to examine and articulate the intersections between arts and cultural education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations (UN).
Read moreLaurie T. Schell and Creative Generation Collaborate to Support Casemaking for Culture, Education, and Justice
Laurie T. Schell, ElevateArtsEd, and Creative Generation are pleased to announce their new collaboration to examine case-making for arts and cultural education and produce a suite of resources titled, “Making the Case for Culture, Education, and Justice.”
Read more4.40 Joins the Incubator for Creative Impact
Creative Generation is thrilled to welcome Filarmónica Joven de Colombia and its new project titled, “4.40” co-created with the Global Leaders Program to the Incubator for Creative Impact. 4.40 showcases the dynamic, and often different perspectives of young leaders in the arts, through four 60-minute live sessions from September - November 2021. Each session will challenge four arts leaders, under age 40, to debate four ideas that have no universal answer. Each makes their best case, and audience members decide which view connects to their local realities.
Read moreBlack Teaching Artist Lab joins the Incubator for Creative Impact
Creative Generation is pleased to welcome the Black Teaching Artist Lab (BTAL) to the Incubator for Creative Impact. Over the course of five months, the team at Creative Generation will guide BTAL through conducting original research to understand the status and needs of Black teaching artists in the United States and to build a foundation for future iterations of research and programming for BTAL.
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