For the 2020 Election, youth showed up… but where is their art?

Whether it be through campaigns to educate and encourage participation in the census, through movements to celebrate the vote by encouraging musicians to play at polling places, through art contests which rally the youth vote, artists have leaned into the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 to not only keep making art, but to make meaning through their art, either for themselves or their communities.

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World Alliance for Arts Eduction Visions for the Future of Education

In response to UNESCO’s call for responses to the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) offered the a letter, concluding with a call to action: We advocate for the transformative role and power that arts education has and can enable these changes, which are imperative for the future oof young people and our world.

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The Role of Arts, Culture, and Creativity in the Future of Education

We, along with our colleagues at Creative Generation, read UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education’s paper outlining nine ideas for public action in education in a post-COVID world with great interest. UNESCO’s recommendations are necessarily vague, so as to be applicable to the broadest set of communities, but they are a strong jumping-off point that is well-aligned with Creative Generation’s mission and practices with regard to equity.

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