# Blog
# Welcome
This blog is a space for Teaching Artistry, advocacy, and lived creative practice.
I write from the work itself—as a Master Theatre Teaching Artist navigating classrooms, communities, libraries, and cultural spaces—as well as from reflection on what it means to sustain a creative life.
It centers advocacy, creative labor, and the systems that shape art in community spaces. It holds story, reflection, artistic process, and the ongoing practice of becoming.
Divide and Conquer: Why Teaching Artists Struggle to Mobilize Collectively
The field shapes Teaching Artists through structural fragmentation across geography, disciplines, employment systems, and institutional access. These overlapping systems produce uneven value, scarcity, and separation between “inside” and “outside” positions, limiting connection and hindering collective organizing. With collective commitment, Teaching Artists can move from fragmentation toward power.
The Hidden Labor of Teaching Artists
This piece exposes the full scope of Teaching Artist labor. Before, between, during, and after the visible moment of a session, and how most of it goes uncompensated. This invisibility is not accidental, but structural, with artists absorbing the cost of sustaining programs. The result is a system that depends on hidden labor while failing to fully recognize or resource the professionals doing the work.
Stop Training Teaching Artists. Start Paying Them.
Teaching Artists are often told the solution is more training. We are missing the real issues: a lack of compensation, trust, and power-sharing with artists. Teaching Artists know what the work demands, and when they have felt valued and supported in doing their best work.
Outside the Gate: A Story About Excellence in Teaching Artistry
This personal reflection traces my journey as a Teaching Artist working outside what is traditionally considered “respected” theatre. It asks a central question: if the work has always been excellent, why have our systems struggled to recognize, resource, and value it?
We Don’t Have a Training Problem. We Have a Pay Problem.
This follow-up builds on the growing conversation sparked by my recent post. It clarifies what’s at stake for Teaching Artists and lays the groundwork for a series of deeper explorations into fair pay, hidden labor, systemic barriers, and what it will take to move from dialogue to action.
Stop Rebuilding What Already Exists: Teaching Artists Are Leading the Field
The Teaching Artist field does not need to be rebuilt. It needs to be recognized and resourced. This piece exposes the cycle of extractive “listening,” highlights the work already being led by Teaching Artists, and calls for a shift in power, compensation, and accountability.