Community arts educators cannot authentically amplify youth voice and leadership without intentionally working to dismantle adultism in their programs, organizations, and collective action efforts. Adultism is the systematic mistreatment and disrespect of young people which in turn disregards their power and rights as full human-beings.
During this panel, hear from youth nationally talk about adultism and the impacts it has on youth and adult spaces. This panel was produced as a project of the CYD National Partnership.
The Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic series is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
How do we begin to integrate a trauma informed lens into our work and everyday life? This session will provide a basic framework for incorporating trauma informed practices into arts programs as well as introduce a few successful examples of where the arts have been used as a catalyst for healing.
Presenters: Barbara Mumby-Huerta and Cynthia Tom
ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL.
The Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic series is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
With arts as the center of this session, participants will be invited to express themselves and reflect on their own mental health in these times. This engagement will be collaboratively facilitated by young artists from the National Young Artists Summit and National Youth Network, projects that have stemmed from Creative Youth Development National Partnership, and supported by an adult accomplice. Adult participants will be provided tips and best practices for collaborating with young people.
Presenters: Paula Ortega, RE:FRAME Youth Arts Center, Tanykia “Diamond” Davis, and Indi McCasey
ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL.
The Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic series is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
Social isolation and invisibility due to ageism is a major problem for older adults that has only been exacerbated by Covid-19. The opportunity for older adults to learn, express themselves, and to build and sustain community is more important now than ever. In this session, participants will learn how creative aging arts education programs combat ageism and are a pathway to reconnect older adults to one another, and to their communities in the midst of the pandemic.
Presenters: Annie Montgomery, Lifetime Arts, Inc., and Mary Moore Easter
ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL
The “Anti-Racism as Organizational Compass” series offers the opportunity to listen to intimate conversations with six BIPOC-led arts organizations that center anti-racism in mission and practice.
Our dialogue facilitator, Masharika Prejean Maddison, spoke to key stakeholders of Sins Invalid, including Nomy Lamm and Lettie Robles-Tovar. Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project in San Francisco, CA that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities.
ASL English Interpretation provided by Rorri Burton and Selena Flowers
The Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic series is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
Modeled after the Mississippi Freedom schools of the 1960s, we will ground this session in our learning of Black radical traditions, drawing specifically from Black Queer Feminist praxis to understand how we cultivate Black resilience within our bodies and our communities, channeling wisdom from our ancestors, plant allies, and the ecosystem of the Earth.
Presenter: Adaku Utah, Harriet's Apothecary ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL
ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL
The “Anti-Racism as Organizational Compass” series offers the opportunity to listen to intimate conversations with six BIPOC-led arts organizations that center anti-racism in mission and practice.
Our dialogue facilitator, Masharika Prejean Maddison, will speak to Tempestt Hazel and Lolly Bowean from the Field Foundation. Tempestt (Art Program Officer) and Lolly (Media and Storytelling Program Officer) will speak to how the foundation uses community empowerment, anti-racism and racial equity as north stars when investing in communities throughout Chicago.
ASL English Interpretation provided by Rorri Burton and Selena Flowers
The Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic series is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
Navigating the hearing world, the BIPOC Deaf community encounters challenges at the intersection of ableism and racism. This workshop endeavors to unpack roadblocks faced, to acknowledge challenges conquered, and to provide the hearing (arts education) community a map to accessible, equitable spaces for and by BIPOC Deaf.
Presenters: Rorri Burton, Awet Moges, Jade Bryan, Tanisha Russell
ASL English Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL
The “Anti-Racism as Organizational Compass” series offers the opportunity to listen to intimate conversations with six BIPOC-led arts organizations that center anti-racism in mission and practice.
Our dialogue facilitator, Masharika Prejean Maddison, spoke to Brandi Turner, Carlton Turner, and daniel johnson of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture), a rural community organization based in Utica, MS. Sipp Culture believes in honoring the legacies of community builders and weaves together research, development, local agriculture, with contemporary media & storytelling to promote the legacy and vision of their hometown while also using a place-based model to advocate for the resources its residences need to be self-sufficient.
ASL English Interpretation provided by Rorri Burton and Selena Flowers from ProBono ASL
“Rootwork | Grounding Community Arts Education Beyond the Pandemic” is an online learning series about how to create programming informed by, and supportive of, the many, varied lived experiences of our communities in the unique context of this moment.
The pandemic has forced us to reckon with so many realities, including technology’s role in our work and community-making. While tech often cannot replace engagement IRL, we are living at a time when digital tools are becoming more essential for our practice. Let's talk about how we can let our organizational values lead us to make the most impact with our communities, especially in consideration of the very real digital divide. Participants will learn some low-cost ways, strategies, and resources to embrace video and online technologies to deliver fun, creative experiences for learners of all ages.
Access the slides here.
Link to video in presentation: https://youtu.be/Z1DM_6AikNs
Speakers:
Joaquin Ortiz, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Adam Sherlock, Spy Hop, Salt Lake City, UT
ASL English Interpretation provided by Dresden Lamar and Mark Ormita from ProBono ASL
