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.”
Read moreFor 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.
Read moreWorld 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.
Read moreRevolution 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.
Read moreYes, Reimagine! (If not during a pandemic when might we?)
Our fourteenth installment features two brilliant women Takiema Bunche Smith and Jody Drezner Alperin, with our host Courtney J. Boddie from the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie Podcast, who are all fighting for equitable arts education.
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