From August to December 2020, the Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie podcast and Creative Generation collaborated with twenty-two inspiring Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists, educators, and community activists through a video interview series, “We Can’t Go Back.” This cumulative report highlights the many anti-racist, liberatory, and intersectional feminist practices, strategies, and fundamental shifts in arts and cultural work – both pedagogical and institutional – to reimagine a future to which the arts education field may move toward. Readers are invited to pause and reflect on the question: If we can't go back, where do we go from here?
Read moreInternational Arts Education Week: Final Report and Evaluation
From 25-31 May 2020, the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) partnered with Creative Generation, and worked alongside UNESCO to produce International Arts Education Week (IAEW): a week-long celebration aimed at increasing the international community’s awareness on the importance of arts education and at reinforcing its co-operation by promoting cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The 2020 celebration encouraged the global arts education community to participate in the week through a number of activities, including a social media campaign, digital learning opportunities, and more.
Read moreTheater and Policy Salon: An Evaluation Study of a Pilot Program
Through our recent research with Theater & Policy Salon, a member of our Incubator for Creative Impact, it seems that audiences in the Washington, D.C. metro area are becoming increasingly interested in hard-hitting topical plays. Whether it is because of the urgency of this moment in U.S. and global politics due to rising nationalist sentiments or antiracist movements, our research unearthed the potential for the political to not only come center stage but to become the center of an experience which navigates the intersections of fiction and fact as themes from the play are explored by experts and creatives at post-show talk-backs.
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