Podcast Episodes

Can Arts Festivals, Community Theater & Cultural Organizers Save Democracy?

Episode 133

What happens when community theater, political leadership, and grassroots organizing collide?

In today’s polarized climate, building authentic, inclusive community can feel impossible—especially acro…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

When the Arts Are Under Fire – Navigating Today’s Unfriendly Cultural Climate

Episode 132

What happens when your art, your activism or your organization’s mission makes you a political target?

If you’re an artist, nonprofit leader, cultural organizer, or anyone working at the intersection …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Can Activist Artists Bring DEI Back From the Dead? Part 3

Episode 131

What if the key to undoing bias and building empathy isn’t just policy or protest—but a complicated art and neuroscience dance that facilitates the rewiring the human brain?

In this final chapter of o…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Can Theater Artists Bring DEI Back From the Dead? Part 2

Episode 130

Can a scripted performance shift the way people feel—and act—about race, identity, and inclusion in their workplace?

This is Chapter Two of our three-part journey into the world of Breaking Ice, a the…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Can Activist Theater Artists Bring DEI Back from the Dead? Part 1

Episode 129

Can artists revive the powerful, but increasingly vilified, values of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in America?

As DEI initiatives face growing backlash and politicization, many wonder whether the …

Published on 3 months ago

Art IS Change: Want Proof That Art Makes Real Change? Start Here

Season 4 Episode 128

What if changing a podcast title could spark a deeper, more powerful shift in how we understand the role of artists in shaping society?

Not likely, but if you’ve ever felt like your creative work is …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Why Arts Activism & Cultural Organizing are a Pro Democracy Imperative

Season 4 Episode 127

How can the transformative power of art and culture serve as the connective tissue in movements for democracy, justice, and deep societal change?

In our divided world , building genuine, arts animated…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The CETA Arts Revolution Part 2: What Can Today's Activist Artists Learn From It?

Season 4 Episode 126

What if the secret to revitalizing today’s creative workforce lies in a forgotten 1970s government program?

In a time when society urgently seeks sustainable ways to support artists and strengthen com…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

THE CETA ARTS REVOLUTION: What Can Today's Activist Artists & Organizers Learn from It?

Season 4 Episode 125

Did you know the U.S. once launched a massive jobs program that empowered over 20,000 artists, and creative support staff—and then let it vanish from collective memory?

For artists, educators, and com…

Published on 4 months ago

New Rules: 11 Unlikely Lessons for Activist Artists Navigating MAGA.

Season 4 Episode 124

What can we learn from artists who survived the chaos of 1980s prisons—and how can their lessons help us resist authoritarianism today?

From the Center for the Study of Art & Community, this is Change…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago