CReArC Global is a collaborative network founded by scholars in music and arts from across the globe. The founding members span four continents, encompassing varied backgrounds, diverse interests, and a wide range of methodologies and approaches.
The aim of the network is the formation of an international community of scholars, educators, and practitioners for whom the framework of Artistic Citizenship impacts their approaches to arts and arts education. Artistic Citizenship encompasses perspectives on music and arts that relate to social inclusion, education, and artistic practices and their reception, among others. This includes the development and empowerment of individuals and communities within (co-) creative, just, and cooperative (democratic) contexts, whether at conceptual, institutional, or systemic levels. Researchers in the network are involved in different studies and projects that relate to the topics mentioned above. CReArC Global is thus a forum in which we develop and share new ideas, studies, publications and collaborations. The ideas behind the concept of Artistic Citizenship have the prospective to unfold the art institutions’ capacity for contributing in diverse ways to the cultural and artistic engagement of all citizens in society., Artistic Citizenship holds strong notions of inclusion and co-productive creativity that tangibly can involve individual and communities to increasingly participate in creative art processes. Such processes that can enhance and enforce people’s creative agency and general quality of life from a life-long perspective. Therefore, CReArC Global aims at being the pivot of such research and research-based activities.
CReArC Global aims to
At CReArC Global, international research activities such as workshops, talks, conferences and network meetings, ensure critical dialogues about Artistic Citizenship.
At CReArC Global we initiate and lead research project development and design aimed at securing funding from national and international funding agencies.
At CReArC Global we welcome invitations and initiatives to participate in research projects within adjacent fields of music education.
At CReArC Global students, teachers and researchers engage in a wide range of collaborative educational research activities in-house and in collaboration with partners.
Dr. Maria Westvall, Professor of Music Education at SMI, University College of Music Education in Stockholm, Sweden. Director
Dr. Emily Achieng Akuno, Professor of Music Education, Vice Chancellor of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology in Siaya County, Kenya.
Dr. Charles Carson, Associate professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology at University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dr. Andrea Creech, Professor of Music Pedagogy at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Canada.
Dr. Flávia Narita, Senior lecturer of Music Education at Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.
Dr. Oscar Pripp, Associate professor of Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Dr. Nan Qi, Professor of Music Education at Zhejiang International Studies University, China, also affiliated with Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
For further information please contact maria.westvall@smi.se
Senast upppdaterad: 2025-10-30