Youth Development
Founded in 2016, the Social Justice Sewing Academy is a critical education program that fosters participatory art as a vehicle for personal transformation, community cohesion, and social change. We bring together artist-mentors, local youth, and...
Last Updated: July 21, 2017
Sara Trail dedicates her art practice to social justice reform and created SJSA in efforts to engage students and activists across the United States who share a common vision of equity and justice. She uses art as a vehicle for motivation and...
Last Updated: July 21, 2017
Artist Carrie Boucher believes that creative making is an essential part of human expression and through her current work she explores the fundamental questions around who has access to art programming, and why disparities exist. In her current work...
Last Updated: August 21, 2017
Our mission is rooted in the belief that art-making, as a form of human expression, is for ALL people and that all people should have access to resources enabling them to participate in the experience of making art. It is our intention to help those...
Last Updated: August 21, 2017
TerraLuna Collaborative views the arts as humanity’s developmental evaluation. Arts-Based Evaluation (ABE) collects, analyzes, and reports data through artistic methods. Examples of ABE methods include photovoice, the visual matrix, verbatim theatre...
Last Updated: September 9, 2017
In a world of uncertainty and uneasy policies, laws, regulations, biases, stereotypes, assumptions, and prejudices what are we to do? In a world full of isms: racism, sexism, ableism, classism and so much more, what are we to do? The Social Justice...
Last Updated: September 12, 2017
Founded in 2016, McNeil Creative Enterprises (MCE) is an arts innovation firm dedicated to the increased visibility and growth of arts and culture in communities. Through our in-house expertise, strategic partners and networks, MCE partners with...
Last Updated: January 22, 2018
I am from a non-federal treaty tribe. In 2001, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation abolishing all state recognition for tribes in Florida. This left thousands of people, and over 500 non-recognized tribes, alone and oppressed. Artists could no longer...
Last Updated: March 12, 2018
Founded in 2000 by Noel “Paul” Stookey (of the 1960’s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary) and his daughter, Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, Music to Life builds on the strong historical legacy of social movements’ intentional use of music to educate, recruit...
Last Updated: April 24, 2018
Build the capacity of arts organizations and strengthen greater Houston’s arts ecosystem
Provide innovative solutions to system challenges such as inclusion, relevance and financial sustainability;
Build the capacity of arts and culture...
Last Updated: November 15, 2018
The St. Louis Storytelling Festival is a University of Missouri Extension Community Arts Program. We help foster arts-based community and economic development. We have an annual multi-day, multi-site Festival, and also year-round events like a...
Last Updated: June 28, 2019
I am a veteran arts educator turned creative activist. In 2013 my professional life changed profoundly when I left higher education and became an arts volunteer, an AmeriCorps member (2014), independent teaching artist to underserved audiences (2015...
Last Updated: August 6, 2019
It is Wise Fool New Mexico's mission to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre.
Wise Fool programs are designed:
Last Updated: June 16, 2020
GB Youth Media is a media arts organization focused on social justice and youth voices. Our mission is to create communities where young people build the confidence and media skills to express themselves and to promote community building,...
Last Updated: February 8, 2021
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