New Resource: Case-making and System Changes
Time to Celebrate!
In collaboration with Creative Generation, we launch a new resource titled 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, such as a global health pandemic, reckoning with racial justice, environmental crisis, threats to public education, and economic recession.
You may have read individual articles as they were published in the last six months on the Creative Generation or ElevateArtsEd websites. The new Resource Center brings it all together, aggregating perspectives from the fields of culture, education, and social change on the topics of advocacy, case-making, and systems change. It includes an overview of documented knowledge, annotated bibliography, and a suite of essays. The resource center is an opportunity to join the conversation, build on the research, and share your ideas. Learn how here.
Also, we are asking your help to spread the word. The resource can be directly accessed via https://creative-generation.org/casemaking.
You Are Invited!
Step One: Get started with Introduction To Case-making And Systems Change in Arts & Cultural Education.
Step Two: Learn more. Select one or more of the other essays or the research; each publication provides a big picture perspective!
Step Three: Take Action. Share this resource with your networks. Start a conversation.
Step Four: Contact ElevateArtsEd or Creative Generation to schedule a workshop on Case-making & Systems Change.
I am grateful to Jeff M. Poulin, André Solomon, Bridget Woodbury, and the rest of the Creative Generation team for their expertise and insights in creating this timely resource, expanding my thinking about how and why we advocate, and examining our personal and professional roles and responsibilities in advancing arts education.