Notes explore creating accessible and empathic environments in arts education for youth, suggesting a shift from traditional methods.
Working with children, I find it almost impossible to share a fixed set of methods. As artists and educators, we should unlearn testing methods. I can share gifts of truth that have been shared with me, longing for uncomfortable conversations and seeking to create brave spaces. Not methods. One of these gifts was cripping the spaces. We can call these spaces accessible spaces. Or as the antiracist educator and writer Britte Hawthorne calls it: curious and empathic environments.
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