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.
Read moreWorld 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreWhitewashed
A personal story from André Solomon: “I am excited to uncover all the parts of me. The beauty of being human is that we are always changing with the capacity to rewire our behavior. Rewiring that I hope to apply to myself and the arts world because we both have work to do.”
Read moreThe Arts and Creativity Abound Amid a Global Pandemic
At Creative Generation, we are committed to helping out constituents through this global crisis by providing timely and relevant resources, however, we are also committed to inspiring our followers with those bright spots and amplifying messages of hope.
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