Episode 44: Exploring Cultural Continuity: Informal & Formal Art Education Practice
Laura and Matt GrundlerDr. Heidi C. Powell
Cultural continuity is how people use the arts to maintain personal, community, or national identity over time with global art cultures. In this episode, the Creativity Department speaks with Dr. Heidi C. Powell, recipient of the FAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award. During the conversation, Dr. Powell delves into her research on cultural continuity and what it means to hold true to traditions and heritage in a contemporary way. During the discussion, Dr. Powell examines her own Native American (Lenni Lenape) and Norwegian heritage and traditions. She explains how we all create national and community identity through art making practice and what art practices help us maintain those connections. Discover how cultural continuity creates embodied learning for students and promotes personal culture with value, breeds efficacy and confidence, and nurtures ways of being that can’t be taught.
