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 moreIn 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.
Read moreNeed to convince collaborators or colleagues of the importance of using creativity in activism? The Center for Artistic Activism's Stephen Duncombe co-authored a new, evidence-based, empirical study of the impact of creative activism vs. conventional forms of activism!
Read moreSince diving into the research that led to my work on Cyclical Mentorship in 2017, I have been thinking deeply on the concept of mentorship, especially in the arts and cultural education ecosystem, and how we can shift - or expand - the narrative. Some of the most compelling empirical evidence I have gathered involves conversations around mentorship, but there’s a major twist: these conversations are never directly about mentorship.
Read moreIn The CYD Secondary Arts Project, a two year pilot program, Seattle Public Schools and The Creative Advantage specifically designed arts programming to reach and engage high school communities who were unstably housed or unsheltered. In 2018, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) received funding through the Human Services Department (and the endorsement of the Mayor’s Innovation Team) to provide high quality and culturally-relevant arts to chronicle the role of arts and creative youth development approaches to boost school attendance, classroom engagement, and matriculation.
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