Marketing Strategies and The Midsummer Music Dream Festival

Working with Midsummer Music Dream Festival (MMD) helped me realize just how important social media platforms are for any business or artist. As a teaching artist, my focus is typically geared towards performance or education, not the management of virtual content. Social media previously only played a role adjacent with my online courses as a student or via my own personal accounts. However, my fieldwork internship reshaped the way I leverage my social media and marketing skills.

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Arts Practices to Improve our Everyday Wellbeing | An Interview with Kathleen Cicero

To continue the exploration of arts therapy and how it is applicable to our generation, I had the opportunity to interview Kathleen Cicero who has her Undergrad in Music Therapy from Eastern Michigan University and will soon be on her way to becoming a certified arts therapist. I wanted to interview Kathleen Cicero because she is right at the cusp of transitioning from learning about music therapy to putting it into practice, and I think she has a lot of insight into why more people should and are becoming involved with arts therapies. We had a lovely conversation spanning topics from the basics of music therapy to further accessibility to creative youth. I have taken our conversation and summarized the main questions and answers we were able to touch on, in order to provide Creative Generation’s audience with the best possible access to this information. If you would like to watch the full interview you can follow the link here or click the button below. I want to thank Kathleen for her time, and I hope you all enjoy our conversation on Music Therapy.

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Arts Practices to Improve Our Everyday Wellbeing | Interview with Natalie Carlton

As part of my Capstone research, I wanted to gain insight into Art Therapy from a certified Therapist. Natalie Carlton is both the Director and faculty member at Drexel University. I had the honor of interviewing her this past week to discuss in depth visual arts therapies and the impact they have had so far in the hopes of seeing how we can integrate them into our daily lives.

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