In June 2020, the Bloomingdale School of Music (Bloomingdale)—like many communities around the world—paused in reaction to what was happening with the convergence of multiple pandemics and began to reflect on the organization’s growing edges.
Read more5 Learnings from Our Work Building and Engaging STEAM Audiences Alongside the Innovation Collaborative
Over the course of 2022, I had the pleasure of working closely with the Innovation Collaborative to help build their audience of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Education (STEAM) supporters this year, which included conducting a focus group of educators — and their supporters — to learn more about the STEAM educational landscape and their unique interests and needs as those cultivating creative learning.
Read moreIntertwining Heuristic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research
Audrey Maxner reflects on her summer residency capstone project that combined heuristic inquiry with arts-based research to create a heuristic, arts-based self-study. In this blog post, she will briefly introduce and explain what heuristic inquiry and arts-based research are.
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 moreMaking the Case for Social Justice
The term “social justice“ is commonly referenced as the objective of creating a fair and equal society, with equitable distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges, where individual rights are recognized and protected, and decisions are made in ways that are fair and honest. To realize the principles of social justice in and through arts and cultural education, the author considers practical considerations for social justice through the following areas: access and participation, board development, teacher recruitment, and curriculum development.
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