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Joy Counts, But How Do We Count It?
Kathe Swaback Käthe Swaback, Program Director at Raw Art Works in Lynn and Project Leader of the Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project, is about as enthusiastic about logic models and quantitative...
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Efforts to Develop Youth Creativity Produce “Ripple Effects” that Benefit...
New Research Sets Stage for Boston Summit to Advance Emerging Field of Creative Youth Development Out-of-school programs that develop the creative capacities of young people are uniquely positioned to...
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Live Web Cast: Creative Youth Development Summit
Tomorrow is the day! Thought leaders in the field of out-of-school youth development—based in the arts, humanities, and science learning—from across the nation are gathered in Boston for the National...
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Massachusetts Programs Continue to Shine
Fifty organizations from across the country have just been recognized as 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalists by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and...
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“I am a scientist.”
Every young person that goes through Lowell Leaders in Stewardship has the right to say, “I am a scientist.” In fact, they are encouraged to do so. From raising snapping turtles in the classroom to...
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AFTA’s Latest Blog Salon Focuses on Creative Youth Development
In conjunction with National Arts Education week this week, Americans for the Arts (AFTA) is hosting a weeklong blog salon dedicated to exploring important next steps for the emerging creative youth...
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Progress Report: Collective Action for Creative Youth Development
The growing, national collective action around the emerging field of creative youth development continued last week at the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s conference. Local and national...
View ArticleMass Creates 1st State Program to Support El Sistema Music Education
Last week, a crowd of nearly three hundred joined us at Artist for Humanity’s EpiCenter as we announced the launch of SerHacer, MCC’s newest grant program supporting creative youth development....
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A Participatory Understanding of Creativity
Guided by the question of how can we foster creative capacity in our children?, the Sam Francis Foundation recently hosted a roundtable discussion at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to surface new...
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Incorporating Behavioral Health Support for Students (and Staff)
“I’m working with a student whose drawings always depict someone getting shot or stabbed. What should I do?” “The other day, a student told me that he’s thinking about coming out to his parents and...
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Innovation in Action: Three Case Studies from the Intersections of Arts and...
How can creative change makers walk their talk and more effectively enact the change they want to see in the world? What do innovation and adaptive change look like for organizations that have social...
View ArticleJoin AFTA’s Creative Youth Development Webinar, Tweet Chat on Sept. 15
Learn more about Creative Youth Development as part of Americans for the Arts’ (AFTA) webinar series: “Arts Education: What You Need to Know” on Tuesday, September 15 at 3pm. MCC’s Dr. Erik Holmgren...
View ArticleNew Fiscal Year Brings New & Expanded CYD Investment, Services
The Massachusetts Cultural Council approved a spending plan yesterday for the coming year that will invest more than $12 million in grants to nonprofit cultural organizations, local cultural councils,...
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NEA Grants $100,000 to CYD Collective Impact Initiative
The National Guild for Community Arts Education, on behalf of a coalition of national partners, has been awarded an NEA Art Works grant for $100,000. The award will support a collective impact...
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Announcing the CYD National Partnership
New Collective Impact Strategy to Strengthen Community-Based Organizations and Empower Practitioners & Youth Today marks the formal launch of the Creative Youth Development National Partnership...
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The Potency of Teaching Artistry
On the MCC’s podcast, Creative Minds Out Loud, we recently spoke with Eric Booth about the potency of teaching artistry. Booth, one of the foremost experts in the world on teaching artists, discusses...
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In Conversation: Katie Wyatt and Dalouge Smith
http://media.blubrry.com/creativemindsoutloud/content.blubrry.com/creativemindsoutloud/pairing_katie_dalouge_final.m4a We invited Katie Wyatt and Dalouge Smith to share a conversation around two...
View ArticleNational Stakeholders to Convene Next Week
On July 24 and 25, the Creative Youth Development National Partnership will host nearly 100 leaders from across sectors in Boston for the 2017 CYD National Stakeholder Meeting with a charge to broaden...
View ArticleParticipate in the First-Ever Field Survey on CYD
Americans for the Arts is administering the first-ever field survey on Creative Youth Development on behalf of the Creative Youth Development (CYD) National Partnership. Organizations and programs were...
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Mass Cultural Council Convenes International CYD Leaders
In July, as part of the Creative Youth Development National Partnership’s stakeholders’ meeting, Mass Cultural Council took the opportunity to host a cohort of international guests to spark a...
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