Creative Generation collaborates with young creatives and those who cultivate their creativity to take local actions towards global changes in pursuit of a more just world.
Read moreNAVIGATING: 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.
Read moreBuilding 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.
Read moreFinding Our Values in UNESCO's Third Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity Global Report
In 2021, our annual campaign, Creativity for Good, focused on the reasons why young people are choosing to develop their creativity and apply it for the social good during the multiple pandemics communities faced and continue to face. We consistently saw young creatives at the forefront of problem solving, activism, and community resilience.
The headings for the third edition of the Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity Global Report hew closely to the theme of Creativity for Good, but on closer inspection, the report effectively combines all three of our most recent campaign themes.
Read moreIntroduction 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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