Article Published in 2022

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society

Abstract

Art for social justice has long challenged notions of whose stories are told, how, and by whom, positioning it as a key body of practice to combat neoliberalism and other structures of domination. In the global struggle for liberation, art and social justice practices must be contextualized, requiring approaches and pedagogy that address the cultural landscapes in which they are rooted. Against this backdrop, the artivist-authors [Hyppolite Ntigurirwa, Andrea Gordillo, Micah Rose and Marian Taylor Brown] explore two questions: 1) In what ways do practices in the arts and social justice differ and intersect across cultural contexts? and 2) What lessons can be gleaned from grassroots and systems-level approaches to arts for social justice? Here, three vignettes, explored through Chicane testimonios and story circles rooted in Black and Indigenous theater practice, elucidate approaches to building creative justice in the landwaters colonized into Colombia, Rwanda, and the United States. Across these three vignettes, questions of practice and lessons learned emerge.

Art[icle] published October 2021

American Journal of Arts Management Volume 9 Issue 1

Abstract

To bridge the worlds we exist within, and the worlds we want to build within, we must first acknowledge the systems that we participate within. Simultaneously, we must give space for breath and creation of new ways of being. This is true yet not exclusive to the arts and culture sector and the study and practice of arts leadership and management. This arts-based exploration weaves the lived experiences of multiple arts nurturers who are co-defining the meaning of equity across leadership conceptualizations and worlds. The author-artists [Mel Taing, Micah Rose, Marian Taylor Brown] operate from a belief in arts and culture workers’ ability to breathe into new ways of being, to actualize creative justice, and to heal—together.