Call for Artists for Eduction for Liberation Conference

The Teacher Action Group (TAG) invites artists to participate in their Education for Liberation Conference on Saturday April 30.  TAG recognizes the critical role of art in movements for social justice, and would love to explore how to explicitly add this dimension to their work. The theme this year is Power from Within:  Our Communities, Our Schools.  TAG is celebrating the vision, strength and resourcefulness of students, educators and community members exercising power and creativity in the face of abandonment and dispossession.  TAG stands firm in the conviction that the people and places in the Philadelphia school system are not disposable, but instead worth cultivating. Rather than disregard and erase our communities’ wisdom and knowledge, TAG strives to create a space that values this cultural wealth and uses it to ground our work for manifesting just communities and schools.  Drawing from the power within leads us towards limitless possibility and real transformation.

If you have work that addresses this theme, or connects to the struggle for education justice or connects to education for liberation, please consider exhibiting. Contact TAG Philly at tagphilly@gmail.com with interest or questions.  The conference is Saturday, April 30 from 9:30 to 4:00 at the Folk Arts and Cultural Treasures Charter School, 1023 Callowhill St. If you do not have work that makes sense but would like to join us as a community member or educator, register here!