NAVIGATING: On Radical Grace: A Tactic to Navigating Rapidly Changing Times

Last week, I wrote about an insane amount of things I learned by observing the arts and cultural education field during the last two years. However, there was one thing that I did not mention – it is a specific tactic that seems so relevant amidst the current set of global and political circumstances we are facing – the concept of radical grace.

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Building Creative Futures

Each year, at Creative Generation, we formulate a central question to curate our own inquiries and a theme to drive forward the discourse on a specific topic. In the past we have  spent time thinking about numerous topics such as #KeepMakingArt, Arts & Cultural Education is a Fundamental, Civil, and Human Right, and Creativity for Good.

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Introduction to Case-making and Systems Change in Arts & Cultural Education

In 2021, a collaborative project between Creative Generation and ElevateArtsEd emerged to better understand how practitioners - such as artists, educators, community leaders, and more - can make the case for and also advocate through arts and culture to drive systemic change and address the complex challenges we were facing, such as a global health pandemic, reckoning with racial justice, environmental crisis, threats to public education, and economic recession.

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Learning Unlearning: Rethinking 'Community Engagement' (I'm Talking About You)

I write to you often, as the Director of Community Engagement, whether my name is attached to my words, or not. I also spend a lot of time with your words: reading posts you tag us in, checking out links you share on social media, and learning about what your organizations are doing that impacts our area of interest at the intersection of arts & cultural education & social justice.

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