Abstract
This paper explores the question, in what ways might artists and arts leaders collaborate to foster deeply impactful community engagement initiatives in support of #BlackLivesMatters? Co-moderated by an arts leader and a dance artist, the discussion focuses on using culture as a meaning-making system to advance racial justice in communities by using the arts to ask provocative questions in service to envisioning and actualizing an antiracist world. Furthermore, we explore the importance of creating, encouraging, and expecting collaboration in support of culture that engages communities in addressing the historic and continuous discrimination, marginalization, oppression, and subjugation experienced by Black people specifically.
Presenters
Antonio C. CuylerProfessor of Music in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, University of Michigan, Michigan, United States Lawrence Jackson
Associate Professor, Dance, George Mason University, Virginia, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Arts Leadership, Artists, BlackLivesMatter Arts, Community Engagement, Dance
