Arts Educators Save the World
Erica Halverson
ARTS EDUCATORS SAVE THE WORLD is a new weekly podcast that brings successful artists together in conversation with their mentors. Season One guests include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Lopez, Josh Radnor, Annaleigh Ashford, and more. Follow the show on Twitter @artseducators, on IG @artseducatorspodcast, and learn more at www.ArtsEducatorsPodcast.com.Subscribe today to be inspired by how these educators and mentors changed the lives of the artists... that change our worlds.
Episodes
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Jul 31, 2025 • 52sec
We're at COMIC-CON!
Teaser for our upcoming episode that we recorded Live at Comic-Con!!
Jul 10, 2025 • 1h 4min
Eve Ewing & avery r young
Sweet home Chicago! Join us for this love letter to arts education in Chicago with the amazing Professor-poet-comics-author-bookstore-owner Eve Ewing and her mentor, poet laureate and performance artist avery r. young. Arts education creates families!
Jun 26, 2025 • 49min
Billy Eichner & Mary Poole, Part 2
Part 2 of our conversation with comedian, actor, and writer Billy Eichner continues, as we delve into how acting teacher Mary Poole’s approach to mentoring shaped all of our lives. Find Part I in your podcast feed!
Jun 12, 2025 • 48min
Billy Eichner & Mary Poole, Part 1
It’s Billy on the podcast! This episode features comedian, actor, and writer Billy Eichner alongside guest co-host Jamie Salka (CEO of Story Pirates) as we talk with the college acting teacher we all shared: Mary Poole. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it’s better than Cats.
May 28, 2025 • 32min
Erica & Alek Chat #4
Part 4 of our ongoing mini-series "Erica & Alek Chats," where our hosts take a deep dive into a specific aspect of arts learning-and-teaching from Erica's book, How the Arts Can Save Education.
May 8, 2025 • 1h 17min
Wendy Goldberg & Molly Smith
What does it take to be the Artistic Director of a major theatre company? And how do you recognize someone’s potential to succeed in this kind of a leadership role? You will not want to miss the answers to these and other questions about leadership in theatre in our conversation with two grandes dames of the American theatre world, Molly Smith and Wendy Goldberg!
Apr 21, 2025 • 57min
LIVE! From NCECA! In SLC!
Live! from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts it’s AESTW!!! Erica and Alek traveled to Salt Lake City for a live recording at the NCECA conference with VETART Executive Director Steve Dilley and ceramicist and navy veteran Reginald Green. Our audience was moved by Reggie’s story of transformation and identity-making through ceramics… and now you can bear witness!
Apr 7, 2025 • 58min
Blue Sky Episode Swap!
Dropping in our feed today is an episode from our friends at Blue Sky. Bill Burke and the Optimism Institute host conversations about positivity, including this gem with Vanessa Cooksey about her optimistic take on the future of the arts, the vital role that artists play in our communities, the joys of arts education. Onward together!
Mar 25, 2025 • 1h 10min
L. Steven Taylor & Dr. Lisa Mitchell
On today’s episode we journey through the amazing arts education program Disney Musicals in Schools with Broadway star L. Steven Taylor (Mufasa in "The Lion King") and Dr. Lisa Mitchell (Director of Education, Disney Theatricals). This team of artists and educators works in elementary schools across the US to bring musical theatre joy to students everywhere!
Mar 14, 2025 • 37min
Erica & Alek Chat #3
Part 3 of our ongoing mini-series "Erica & Alek Chats," where our hosts take a deep dive into a specific aspect of arts learning-and-teaching from Erica's book, How the Arts Can Save Education.
