Taking Submissions for Stories of Creative Resilience

Share your stories of Creative Resilience! The Teaching Artists Guild is taking submissions for stories of creative resilience in teaching artistry. TAG is sharing stories of teaching artists across the country who have embraced creative resiliency in different ways. If you have a story, photo, or want to highlight another teaching artist in your community, check out this opportunity.

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2023 TAG Awards Watch Parties

While the TAG Awards will be online, across the country our regional networks are hosting in-person watch parties and community gatherings for teaching artists in their area. These watch parties are a chance for teaching artists in the area to gather together in-person, watch the awards, celebrate the field, and build community. Join teaching artists across the country for these watch parties!

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Spring Forward Together

Join Teaching Artist Circle (TAC), for an event for Teaching Artists and Arts Administrators to connect, mix and mingle, plus learn more about Proposition 28. Prop 28 is an approved ballot measure that will provide additional funding for arts and music education in all California K‑12 public schools (including public charter schools) by annually allocating funds from the state General Fund.

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2023 TAG Awards: 25th Anniversary

The TAG Awards seek to raise the visibility of teaching artists within the arts in education and community arts fields and in the organizations and institutions for which they work as well as honor innovation in teaching artistry. Nominations are made by peers in the teaching artistry field and winners are selected by panel review. Nominations for the 2023 Awards are closed. Please stay tuned for announcement of the winners.

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A Day of Purpose: Decolonizing Arts Education with Black Lives Matter at School

On April 1st, Black Lives Matter at School and the Teaching Artists Guild will partner on a special professional development opportunity for teaching artists that focuses on the ongoing activations and reflections from BLM at School’s Year of Purpose, which aims to uplift Black students and undo institutional racism. The centerpiece of the Year of Purpose is asking educators to reflect on their own work in relationship to antiracist pedagogy and abolitionist practice, persistently challenging themselves to center Black lives in their classrooms. Workshop facilitators from Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching Artists Guild, Zinn Education Project, and Creative Generation will partner on this event.

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