What Power do we Actually Yield? (...whether they give it to us or not)

Our sixteenth installment features Alaina Newell, with our host Courtney J. Boddie from the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie Podcast, who endorses an environment where vocalizing uncomfortable feelings must be done regardless of what power is held. She believes it is her duty to fiercely advocate for future BIPOC generations because they have the right to say “no.”

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For the 2020 Election, youth showed up… but where is their art?

Whether it be through campaigns to educate and encourage participation in the census, through movements to celebrate the vote by encouraging musicians to play at polling places, through art contests which rally the youth vote, artists have leaned into the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 to not only keep making art, but to make meaning through their art, either for themselves or their communities.

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World Alliance for Arts Eduction Visions for the Future of Education

In response to UNESCO’s call for responses to the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) offered the a letter, concluding with a call to action: We advocate for the transformative role and power that arts education has and can enable these changes, which are imperative for the future oof young people and our world.

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Revolution is Not Risk-Free

Our fifteenth installment features Cardozie Jones, with our host Courtney J. Boddie from the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie Podcast, who strives to accompany individuals through difficult processes because on the other side of struggles are miracles. Even with the serious situations Diversity/Equity/Accessibility/Inclusion (DEAI) can prompt, Jones manifests action from a place of joy.

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