Black Teaching Artist Lab News
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The Black Teaching Artist Lab: Pan-African Cultural Exchange
Melissa Parke, Founder, The Black Teaching Artist Lab. 06-01-2021
In 2020, amid a global pandemic and an extended and overdue reckoning with systemic racism in America, the Black Teaching Artist Lab was born.
Black Teaching Artist Lab
The Ensemble. Connecting the World of Music for Social Change.05-04-2021
The new Black Teaching Artist Lab (BTAL) is a professional development and travel-abroad program that connects individual BPOC artists and learners from the African Diaspora through arts education, in order to unify and strengthen intercultural understanding between marginalized Pan-African populations.
Survey for Black Teaching Artists Seeks to Advance the Field
The Ensemble. Connecting the World of Music for Social Change.12-01-2021
Last month, we shared news that the Black Teaching Artist Lab (BTAL) and Creative Generation (CG) organizations had partnered to conduct original research on the needs and experiences of Black teaching artists in the U.S.
A Partnership to Amplify Black Teaching Artists and Afrocentric Pedagogy
The Ensemble. Connecting the World of Music for Social Change.11-05-2021
By now, you likely know about Creative Generation and The Black Teaching Artist Lab (BTAL); we’ve shared many of their resources over the past year. As of mid-August, the two organizations have formed a partnership aimed to support BTAL’s mission to provide Black teaching artists with an Afrocentric SEL teaching framework.
Creative Generation
We are a values-forward, global collective that collaborates with young creatives and those who cultivate their creativity to take local actions towards global changes in pursuit of a more just world.
Black Teaching Artist Lab Joins The Incubator For Creative Impact
Creative Generation. 08-15-2021
In 2020, amid a global pandemic and an extended and overdue reckoning with systemic racism in America, the Black Teaching Artist Lab was born.
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Creative Generation. 11-12-2021
The collaboration between the Black Teaching Artist Lab (BTAL) and Creative Generation has focused on through conducting original research to understand the status and needs of Black teaching artists in the United States and to build a foundation for future iterations of research and programming for BTAL.