International Journal of Art & Design Education· 2026Q1
We're Mutually Helping Each Other Out: Intergenerational Learning Between Adult Artists and Teen Participants Through a BIPOC , Community‐Centred Arts Programme
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A community-based arts program in Oakland, CA, fostered reciprocal learning between adult artists and BIPOC youth, leading to skill development, English practice, and deepened civic engagement for youth, while adult artists enhanced their leadership and community engagement skills.
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Key points
- Youth participants developed technical artistic and professional workforce competencies through hands-on mentorship.
- Newcomer youth improved English language skills through low-stakes collaborative art-making.
- Participants deepened civic engagement and cultural identity by linking personal immigrant experiences to local histories.
- Adult artists enhanced their facilitation, leadership, and community-engaged practices by working with youth.
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Abstract
Abstract This study examines intergenerational learning within a community‐based art education (CBAE) summer programme serving multilingual BIPOC youth in Oakland, California. Using embedded ethnography, semi‐structured interviews and surveys, we investigated how high school youth and adult teaching artists co‐created public art installations for community spaces. Grounded in communities of practice, culturally sustaining pedagogy and constructionism, findings reveal three interconnected outcomes: first, youth developed technical artistic and professional workforce competencies through hands‐on mentorship; second, newcomer youth practised English organically through low‐stakes collaborative art‐making; and third, participants deepened civic engagement and cultural identity by connecting personal immigrant experiences to local place‐based histories. This learning flowed in both directions, disrupting traditional power dynamics as adult artists also deepened their facilitation, leadership and community‐engaged practices through working alongside youth. This study contributes to CBAE by demonstrating how reciprocal intergenerational public art‐making creates unique conditions that bring together skill development, language practice, civic engagement and workforce readiness within BIPOC communities.
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Field: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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