Case-making and Systems Change in Arts & Cultural Education

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.

The goal of the project was to expand the knowledge base of case-making and systems change in the field of arts and cultural education and provide resources to support effective actions for these practitioners (and young creatives, too!). What has resulted is a suite of essays investigating the theory and practice of case-making and systems change for and through arts and cultural education.

In this inaugural article, read about an expanding model for thinking about case-making and systems change and key learning themes that inform the work.