Some of the biggest struggles I face in studying music education in college revolve around how the spaces I am creating are leaving out certain groups and individuals. I kept thinking about what I was doing to help make it more inclusive, which led me to be really interested in questioning the process of ‘typical’ music-making.
Read moreBRIDGING: How Do We Begin With Collective Care?
This is not an essay about bridging in relation to my work; but rather an approach to connection in relation to my identity.
This writing is part of my processing of the past several years and a reflection of my own identity, grounded by an intersubjective lens into other people’s perceptions of me. I do not tell many people this story, because I have come to expect that my words will be misunderstood and that I will only be blamed for mistakes I made. Writing it on my terms has required my active participation in the cycle of learning, unlearning, and relearning where I have been and, reframing what I mistook for mistakes in the past as choices I made with the tools I had available to me. This is my way of sharing what bridging is from my perspective as a Chinese-Jewish Queer Disabled woman living, and not truly fitting in, in the Western world.
Read moreBRIDGING: Systems Change to Improve Pedagogy, Policy, and Practice
In our campaign for 2022: Building Creative Features, we have decided to focus quarterly themes on the four inquiry-based processes emerging from our research on leadership in arts and cultural education. This campaign is forward-looking and plural in nature: we are not hoping to creatively build one singular future that will have the most benefit for us as individuals, but rather we are all employing our creativity in order to build a plurality of futures which provide a multitude of pathways for us all.
This quarter’s theme is “bridging”, and the topic where I would like to frame our discussion. (Be sure to check out the series on “unlearning” and “navigating”…and stay tuned for “holding tensions” next! Check out all posts in the 2022 Campaign here.)
Read moreBRIDGING: Professional Identities in Arts & Cultural Education: “Arts Hybrids” as Cultural Knowledge Brokers
In a world of specialists and standardized job titles, society writ large fails to recognize that innovation is often sparked at the intersections of domains - squarely in the sweet spot where many of us in the arts & cultural education ecosystem constantly find ourselves. We are multihyphenates.
Read moreCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Blog Posts about Bridging the Gap
As a part of our 2022 Campaign: Building Creative Futures, we’ll be seeking blog posts from you about a new topic each quarter. Our first topic was “navigating.” Up next is “bridging” here’s the prompt:
What connections can we make between our selves & others' selves; our work & others' work; and our field's work & other fields' work?
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