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.
Read moreA Call to Action for Arts Education Funders in the Wake of COVID-19
With funders – whether public agencies in the arts/culture, education, social service sector or private mega-foundations or family funds – re-evaluating their strategies during this unprecedented time, the arts education community calls on funders to partner with and respond to the direct needs of their current and potential grantees to ensure that every child continues to have the opportunity to develop their creativity and our infrastructure supporting these young people maintains is strength, agility, and vibrancy.
Read moreArts Education Is A Social Justice Issue
If we want to live in a just society we must work together – policy makers, schools, teachers, artists and cultural organisations – to ensure that every child and young person experiences an arts education that enables them to fulfil their potential. Otherwise the arts will continue to be the preserve of those who can afford them.
Read moreArts Education: A Fundamental Right for Youth in the United States of America
By law, the arts in schools are simply not optional, yet our system continues to create pathways for gaps to exist. In my opinion, this is both a legal transgression and a social injustice. Schools are jeopardizing the future of the very young people they aim to serve by reducing time, talent, and resources dedicated to the arts as important school subjects, which serve as a pathway towards our collective community benefit.
Read moreEngagement as an Ethic and a Practice
We need creative education to offer activating glimpses into the histories and the futures that frame this urgency. Just like the political conscience that framed the cross-disciplinary work of the Bauhaus, we need to cultivate a generation of resilient makers with the resourcefulness to create a confident future. We need to engage well beyond our immediate communities, and we need to make that engagement a shared ethic, a daily practice.
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