In 2021, a collaborative project between Creative Generation and ElevateArtsEd emerged to better understand how practitioners - such as artists, educators, community leaders, and more - can make the case for and also advocate through arts and culture to drive systemic change and address the complex challenges we were facing, such as a global health pandemic, reckoning with racial justice, environmental crisis, threats to public education, and economic recession.
Read moreCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Blog Posts about Navigating Rapidly-Changing Times
As a part of our 2022 Campaign: Building Creative Futures, we’ll be seeking blog posts from you about a new topic each quarter. Our first topic is “navigating.” Here’s the prompt:
How are we responding to rapidly changing times?
Read moreA New Chapter
We aim, always, to walk the talk, so we went through this process ourselves and came out of it with a new mission and vision, a bunch of goals, and a long list of values. I worked to refine them, the collective approved them, and now we’re sharing them all with you in a shiny new brochure!
Read moreA Look Into What Drives Changemakers from the First Season of Why Change? The Podcast for a Creative Generation
In March 2020, the team at Creative Generation - and a collection of co-conspirators who became the first co-hosts - launched a new podcast: Why Change? The Podcast for a Creative Generation. The goal was to share the stories of changemakers who were having a positive impact on their communities. What we learned, though, was that the stories shared were those of self-actualization, systems disruption, and creativity in action. It was amazing.
Read moreThrowing Out The Playbook: Insights from the 2021 ABLE Conversation
On Saturday, November 20, the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs (BIAESN) hosted the 2021 ABLE Conversation: Anti-Ableism, Representation, and Accessibility in Arts Education symposium with keynote speakers Rebecca Cokley and Gaelynn Lea. The symposium was powered by Creative Generation. After the keynotes, participants had the opportunity to engage in small group discussions on the insights they gleaned from the presentations.
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