Narrative Strategy

A Guest Editor Series
on Narrative Power Building and Practice

 

Junebug Productions’ Homecoming Project, a community-based, storytelling performance series. Photo by Mariana Sheppard, courtesy of Damia Khanboubi, Junebug Productions.

FEATURED POST

How the Light Gets In: Narrative Power Building through the Arts

by Nayantara Sen

Artist-serving organizations and arts philanthropy have a clear and integral role to play in supporting artists, especially BIPOC and artists from historically marginalized communities, in growing their narrative power. This [series is] for arts funders interested in exploring the “why, what, and how” of arts-integrated narrative strategies. The featured stories and projects also offer instructive entry points to this question: “So what does operationalizing narrative strategies within arts organizations and building narrative power for BIPOC artists look like in practice?”

 

Narrative Strategy Guest Editor Series

 

Constellations: An Interview on Radical Investment for Transformative Narrative Power

by Erin Williams, Tara Dorabji, and Janelle Treibitz, Constellations Culture Change Initiative

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How the Light Gets In: Narrative Power Building through the Arts

Nayantara Sen, guest editor

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The Origins of Restoring the Future

by Karim Ahmad, Restoring the Future

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Weaving Forward: Investing in Culture Bearers for a Shared Future

by Kapena Gordon Alapai & Kassandra Laborde Khalil, ArtChangeUS

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Supporting Artists to Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

by Janelle Triebitz & Nayantara Sen

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Play with Your Food; Reimagine Our World

by Jovida Ross, Food Culture Collective

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An Open Invitation to Arts Funders

by Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Pop Culture Collaborative

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Curatorial Justice is Narrative Change

by Karim Ahmad, Curatorial Justice Project

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Lead to Life: The Alchemy of Atonement

by brontë velez

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