Making Impact

What does leadership look like? Who is deemed a leader? How do leaders use their platforms? These thoughts were percolating at the fourth installment of the Teaching Artists Guild’s (TAG) program Youth Right Now = Truth Right Now, a series of BIPOC Youth Led Professional Development Workshops that give insight into what helps build creative, nurturing and thriving environments for young artists.

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Young Creatives and Healing

Use the social media platform of your choice to tell us your story about how the arts and arts & cultural education have helped people and communities heal. You can tweet a link to an article, post a pick of your current work in progress on IG, share a facebook post, or tag a friend on LinkedIn — whatever you like! — just make sure to tag @Campaign4GenC and use the hashtag #CreativityForGood.

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How arts education made an impact at two alternative high schools serving BIPOC unstably housed youth in Southeast Seattle 2018-2020

In The CYD Secondary Arts Project, a two year pilot program, Seattle Public Schools and The Creative Advantage specifically designed arts programming to reach and engage high school communities who were unstably housed or unsheltered. In 2018, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) received funding through the Human Services Department (and the endorsement of the Mayor’s Innovation Team) to provide high quality and culturally-relevant arts to chronicle the role of arts and creative youth development approaches to boost school attendance, classroom engagement, and matriculation.

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How Have You and Your Community Preserved Arts Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

This International Arts Education Week, we’re seeking out stories of teachers, artists, parents, students, teaching artists, and community members that are supporting arts education in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

We want to hear about how arts and cultural education kept young people connected to each other and their communities.

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