“the conception of crea+e was generated by our passion filled rage, initiated by the consistent micro and macro invalidations of our lived experiences in all parts of art education, from practice and pedagogy to empirical research.”

members function as a collective

…in which anonymity is a purposeful intervention. Individual naming is not consistent with collective ethics of crea+e that are rooted in radical care and coalition building more generally. Combahee River Collective and The Guerilla Girls offer examples of collectives that subvert the codes and conventions of White male dominated neoliberal institutions that value individuation, a strategy we find foments competition among individuals looking out for their own self-interests and undermines solidarity-based communities and relationships, and fails to recognize the social processes of knowledge construction and production.