In collaboration, Creative Generation and the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie podcast continue to produce a video series as part of the #KeepMakingArt campaign. The series explores the work of creatives all around the world as they respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic and will be released regularly on the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie YouTube channel. Viewers can watch the next three videos in the series now!
Read moreCanadian Arts and Education Community Calls for Government Support, Releases "The Winnipeg Vision"
The Canadian Network for Arts and Learning calls on governments, artists, educators, professional organizations, researchers, universities, communities, and all advocates of arts and learning to endorse the principles in this document to ensure that the arts are positioned to make an increased and sustainable contribution to learning both at school and throughout our communities.
Read more#USvsHate: Build Community, Challenge Injustice, Create a Movement
Last year, Mica Pollock and her team at the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) teamed up with Teaching Tolerance (TT) to turn #USvsHate into a nationwide anti-bias initiative. TT School-Based Programming and Grants Manager Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Pollock about the program’s beginnings and what she hopes participating students will gain from the experience.
Read moreTeaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft
Teaching artists, along with their arts teacher colleagues, carry the work of theaters, museums, and writing projects into unpredictable,under-served classrooms, afterschool programs, or vacation and summer camps. In that sense they are the first responders in a crisis where access to realizing your creativity is too reliably predicted by income and address. Yet, despite being essential workers in the arts, teaching artists have been hit hard by the COVID-19 shuttering of cultural institutions, regularly having their hours reduced or being furloughed indefinitely.
Read more#CreateAustraliasFuture
In early April, two old friends and former arts leadership colleagues put their heads together to invent a campaign that could unite and ignite the passions of Australia’s arts sector. #CreateAustraliasFuture had massive impact, with well over a million people engaged. However, I wondered, what did it achieve for Australia’s creative industries at this perilous time?
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