Creative Conversations: Creating Equitable Arts and Cultural Community Engagement Partnerships – A Panel on Collaborative Partnerships with Native Communities

Interested in learning how to create new arts and cultural community-engaged partnerships? Are you new to using creative activities for community-engaged social change? This workshop will introduce you to faculty colleagues and their community partners who have created equitable partnerships with impact. The teams will each explain: the project origins, mutually beneficial outcomes, lessons learned, strategies for sustainable collaboration, and unexpected outcomes.

Attendees will learn the basics of community-engaged research, including definitions, partnership building, and community engagement practices. Presenters will also learn how they share their research experience in publications, presentations, performances, exhibitions, digital formats, etc. Participants will also be able to join a growing network of campus colleagues who are leading creative and innovative arts and cultural community-engaged partnerships.

Presenters:

Jessica Barnes Najor, Ph.D.

C. Kurt Dewhurst, Ph.D.

Heather Howard, Ph.D.

Kevin Leonard

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