Ep 4: Start Something with Eric Booth

During this episode of Why Change? co-hosts Rachael and Jeff discuss the levers of change which drive the sector of practice in their own contexts. Rachael speaks with teaching artist, actor, and author, Eric Booth about field building, starting initiatives, and the most pressing issues facing the field of community-based arts practice. In this episode you’ll learn: The ways in which the teaching artist field is growing and changing; Promising practices in sustaining socially engaged, community-based, arts education; and New research and opportunities for the teaching artist field. The transcript and list of resources mentioned in the episode can be found here on the blog! ABOUT ERIC BOOTH: In 2015 Eric Booth was given the nation’s highest award in arts education, and was named one of the 25 most influential people in the arts in the U.S. He began as a Broadway actor, and became a businessman (his company became the largest of its kind in the U.S. in 7 years), and author of seven books, the most recent are Playing for Their Lives and Tending the Perennials. He was on the faculty of Juilliard (12 years where he founded their teaching artist and mentoring programs), Tanglewood (5 years), The Kennedy Center (20 years), and Lincoln Center Education (for 41 years, where he co-founded their Teaching Artist Development Labs). He has served as a consultant for many arts organizations (including seven of the ten largest U.S. orchestras), cities, states and businesses around the U.S., and worked with many overseas organizations and governments. A frequent keynote speaker, he gave the keynote address to UNESCO's first World Arts Education Conference, he founded the International Teaching Artist Conferences and Collaborative and the largest publications in the music-for-social-change field. WHERE TO FIND ERIC: WWW.ERICBOOTH.NET This episode of Why Change? A Podcast for the Creative Generation was powered by Creative Generation. Produced and Edited by Daniel Stanley. For more information on this episode and Creative Generation please visit the episode webpage and follow us on social media @Campaign4GenC