Arts as Community & Connection: Creative Pathways to Engagement, Equity, & Empowerment

Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

Georgia Southern University

First Presenter’s Email Address

areyes@georgiasouthern.edu

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Dr. Alex Reyes is an Associate Professor of Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students at Georgia Southern University.

Location

Session Six

Strand #1

Home: Family & Community Engagement

Strand #2

Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership

Relevance

The arts can be powerful tools for expression, exploration, and education. This presentation bridges arts-based activities with the homes and communities of youth.

Brief Program Description

This presentation will explore the ways participation in arts-based activities can be used to improve wellness, explore identity, create community, and expand notions of teaching and learning. A small guided arts activity will take place.

Summary

In our communities, the arts have long served as bridges across cultural, language, and social gaps. The arts can also be powerful motivators, facilitate communication, foster socioemotional growth, and expand student opportunities to understand, engage with, and demonstrate understanding of content in classrooms. The arts can create community (in both physical and virtual spaces) that push past language, intellectual ability, interest, or feelings of security. In our increasingly diverse communities, arts-based engagement opportunities can foster connection through building empathy and interest in others’ lives. Participants will be invited to engage in a small guided arts activity.

Evidence

Because the arts can also be powerful motivators, facilitate communication, foster socioemotional growth, and expand student opportunities to understand, engage with, and demonstrate understanding of content in classrooms, the arts create community (in both physical and virtual spaces) that push past language, intellectual ability, interest, or feelings of security.

Learning Objective 1

identify the powerful motivators within arts-based work inside and outside the classroom

Learning Objective 2

express how art can facilitate communication and foster growth among youth

Learning Objective 3

participate in an arts-based activity

Presentation Year

2024

Start Date

3-5-2024 11:30 AM

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Mar 5th, 11:30 AM

Arts as Community & Connection: Creative Pathways to Engagement, Equity, & Empowerment

Session Six

This presentation will explore the ways participation in arts-based activities can be used to improve wellness, explore identity, create community, and expand notions of teaching and learning. A small guided arts activity will take place.