In this post, I speak to Creative Generation leveraging its positionality working with a diverse portfolio of collaborators to track trends and more deeply understand what attributes are central to an organization becoming a “Community Hub” for artistic, cultural, and creative learning. This post is a brief summary of our recent, more extensive publication Developing Community Hubs for Artistic, Cultural, & Creative Learning: An Approach.
Read moreGENUINE COLLABORATIONS: Looking Back to Look Forward
Since 2019, Creative Generation has conducted myriad campaigns through its Campaign for a Creative Generation, which is dedicated to empowering young creatives and their communities by providing a hub for stories, resources, and opportunities. This year’s campaign is focused on Intergenerational Collaboration, explored through quarterly topics. In this blog, Manager of Educational Experiences Erica Joos explores this quarter’s topic: Genuine Collaboration.
Read moreHOLDING TENSIONS: Consultant-Ethnographer, A Nuanced Approach to Working with Organizations and Beyond
As a former educator-turned-project manager at Creative Generation, I hold the tension of currently working in a professional role that my former teacher colleagues (and myself) were often so skeptical of. In this post, I explore how Jill Schinberg’s consultant-ethnographer (CE) framework helps me balance this divergent experience, wherein Creative Generation’s objective to be in co-creation with our collaborators is actualized as we “understand, document, and interpret” important contextual information to successfully see projects through with integrity and care.
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