Embodied, Intergenerational Knowledge: Reconceptualizing Leadership Nurturing in Arts and Culture Management Education

To bridge the worlds we exist within, and the worlds we want to build within, we must first acknowledge the systems that we participate within. Simultaneously, we must give space for breath and creation of new ways of being. This is true yet not exclusive to the arts and culture sector and the study and practice of arts leadership and management. This arts-based exploration weaves the lived experiences of multiple arts nurturers who are co-defining the meaning of equity across leadership conceptualizations and worlds. The author-artists Mel Taing, Micah Rose, and Marian Taylor Brown operate from a belief in arts and culture workers’ ability to breathe into new ways of being, to actualize creative justice, and to heal—together.