As the new Director of Communications, Katie Rainey reflects on this new leadership role through the lens of sharing power and getting the work done. In this blog, she talks about her work as Co-Executive Director of the Teaching Artists Guild (TAG) and how the lessons she’s learned there come into play in her work at Creative Generation.
Read moreArts Practices to Improve our Everyday Wellbeing | An Interview with Kathleen Cicero
To continue the exploration of arts therapy and how it is applicable to our generation, I had the opportunity to interview Kathleen Cicero who has her Undergrad in Music Therapy from Eastern Michigan University and will soon be on her way to becoming a certified arts therapist. I wanted to interview Kathleen Cicero because she is right at the cusp of transitioning from learning about music therapy to putting it into practice, and I think she has a lot of insight into why more people should and are becoming involved with arts therapies. We had a lovely conversation spanning topics from the basics of music therapy to further accessibility to creative youth. I have taken our conversation and summarized the main questions and answers we were able to touch on, in order to provide Creative Generation’s audience with the best possible access to this information. If you would like to watch the full interview you can follow the link here or click the button below. I want to thank Kathleen for her time, and I hope you all enjoy our conversation on Music Therapy.
Read moreA Missing Narrative: An Ethnographic Analysis of Black Teaching Artists
After exploring and archiving existing, documented knowledge related to teaching artists and Black arts-based teaching and learning, Creative Generation and the Black Teaching Artist Lab crafted a research question: What are the current attitudes and perceptions of Black-identifying teaching artists about their work in the United States? A survey instrument was created in response to the identified gaps from the documented knowledge and this blog contains our findings.
Read moreHustle Culture: Are We All Just Hamsters Running on an Endless Wheel?
Professionals from every field are trapped in an endless cycle of work, sleep, repeat, which leads to burnout. Hustle culture and the approaches to reorganize are not one-size-fits-all, but there are steps we can take to have a more healthy and satisfactory work experience. This blog unpacks the creation, existence, and now disruption of hustle culture, to shed light on key research points and spark hope for current and new generations of creatives in the workplace.
Read moreGive Policy A Chance
When it comes to arts education policy, everyone has good intentions, globally there is a lot of support for national policies, but almost inevitably offal and sawdust creep into the mix. Yet extraordinary things have been achieved and it is possible to identify four principles of exemplary arts-in-education policy making.
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