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Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World
Teaching Artists work directly in every kind of community (e.g. schools, hospitals, neighborhoods, companies), using their distinctive skills to create change at the individual and community level. Teaching Artistry is the sleeping giant of social change, and Making Change shows us why.
What is a teaching artist? If you don’t know—or if you do and would like an advocacy tool to help you spread the word—this book is for you.
Written by the man frequently described as “the father of the teaching artist profession,” Making Change shines a light on this powerful global workforce that is largely invisible but astoundingly effective.
Learn how Teaching Artists can activate anyone’s innate artistry to achieve a wide variety of positive goals. Enjoy stories about the surprising impact of their partnerships in health, government, education, corporations, environmentalism, social justice, and peacebuilding.
This inspiring book will leave readers — both inside and outside of the arts — with an awareness of new possibilities for shaping a better world.
What is a teaching artist? If you don’t know—or if you do and would like an advocacy tool to help you spread the word—this book is for you.
Written by the man frequently described as “the father of the teaching artist profession,” Making Change shines a light on this powerful global workforce that is largely invisible but astoundingly effective.
Learn how Teaching Artists can activate anyone’s innate artistry to achieve a wide variety of positive goals. Enjoy stories about the surprising impact of their partnerships in health, government, education, corporations, environmentalism, social justice, and peacebuilding.
This inspiring book will leave readers — both inside and outside of the arts — with an awareness of new possibilities for shaping a better world.
115 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 18, 2023
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October 18, 2025
Read this from both a teacher’s and an artist’s standpoint (since I’m both) and enjoyed both angles. I can’t help thinking, as Booth acknowledges: teaching artistry is a simply a form of teaching well. That makes it sound simple. It isn’t. But it’s an ally worth investigating both for artists and for teachers.
The first half of the book is a bit of a pamphlet, making the point that teaching artistry works. The second half is a very broad toolbox. Useful, but I would have liked the book to go more into the nuts and bolts level. How to setup small activities in our own environments, rather than descriptions of sweeping, impressive projects halfway across the globe. Nevertheless, there’s more than a little inspiration in this book. It’s well written, easy to read, would have benefited from a few pictures and a little more playfulness, to make the book more of an artwork in itself.
Inspirational and interesting.
The first half of the book is a bit of a pamphlet, making the point that teaching artistry works. The second half is a very broad toolbox. Useful, but I would have liked the book to go more into the nuts and bolts level. How to setup small activities in our own environments, rather than descriptions of sweeping, impressive projects halfway across the globe. Nevertheless, there’s more than a little inspiration in this book. It’s well written, easy to read, would have benefited from a few pictures and a little more playfulness, to make the book more of an artwork in itself.
Inspirational and interesting.
November 22, 2024
Highly recommend all musicians/artists to read this book!
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