Each year, Creative Generation conducts a campaign with a specific focus and this year’s campaign is “Intergenerational Collaboration,” explored through quarterly topics. In this blog, Director of Leadership Valerie HD Killebrew explores this quarter’s topic, Building Trust, in an interview with YELF participant Remy Fernandez O’Brien.
Read moreArts Practices to Improve our Everyday Wellbeing | An Interview with Kathleen Cicero
To continue the exploration of arts therapy and how it is applicable to our generation, I had the opportunity to interview Kathleen Cicero who has her Undergrad in Music Therapy from Eastern Michigan University and will soon be on her way to becoming a certified arts therapist. I wanted to interview Kathleen Cicero because she is right at the cusp of transitioning from learning about music therapy to putting it into practice, and I think she has a lot of insight into why more people should and are becoming involved with arts therapies. We had a lovely conversation spanning topics from the basics of music therapy to further accessibility to creative youth. I have taken our conversation and summarized the main questions and answers we were able to touch on, in order to provide Creative Generation’s audience with the best possible access to this information. If you would like to watch the full interview you can follow the link here or click the button below. I want to thank Kathleen for her time, and I hope you all enjoy our conversation on Music Therapy.
Read moreArts Practices to Improve Our Everyday Wellbeing | Interview with Natalie Carlton
As part of my Capstone research, I wanted to gain insight into Art Therapy from a certified Therapist. Natalie Carlton is both the Director and faculty member at Drexel University. I had the honor of interviewing her this past week to discuss in depth visual arts therapies and the impact they have had so far in the hopes of seeing how we can integrate them into our daily lives.
Read moreBRIDGING: A Grand Journey of Exploration of Seeing
In thinking about the topic of ‘Bridging’ I immediately remembered some of our sessions during ITAC 5 - the fifth International Teaching Artist Conference - led by the Korean Arts and Culture Education Service (KACES) in partnership with ITAC Collaborative. The theme of the conference was ‘Boundaries Into Pathways’ and we explored the different ways creative engagement can dismantle or address challenges/blockages. To me, this feels like another way of talking about Bridging - how do utilize the arts to develop new routes and paths through historically hard to navigate or neglected spaces? How do we reach the other side? In thinking about these questions, I approached our colleagues at KACES who, since ITAC5, have been developing the ITAC Korea Hub alongside us. In response to my invitation, KACES suggested sharing the below interview from their webzine called 'arte365. This one, which they have generously translated for us, explores Teaching Arist Oum Jeong Soon’s project, which is a “big picture” answering her childhood question of “what is seeing”. We think it touches on the interesting gaps which often appear when thinking about how you bridge preconceived perceptions, with other people’s lived realities.
Read moreA Look Into What Drives Changemakers from the First Season of Why Change? The Podcast for a Creative Generation
In March 2020, the team at Creative Generation - and a collection of co-conspirators who became the first co-hosts - launched a new podcast: Why Change? The Podcast for a Creative Generation. The goal was to share the stories of changemakers who were having a positive impact on their communities. What we learned, though, was that the stories shared were those of self-actualization, systems disruption, and creativity in action. It was amazing.
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