Promoting the arts and humanities as social resources.
Cultural Agents is a platform for academics, artists, community leaders, and active citizens. It is an invitation to revive a long humanistic tradition that combines arts and research in the service of civic development.
Change requires imagination, thinking like an artist, so we learn from exemplary creative agents and share lessons that can challenge stale paradigms with artful alternatives. The purpose is both intellectual and social. Thinking and doing go together.
Associate of the Bloomberg Center for Cities and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Projects
Cultural Agents
The public-facing NGO that coordinates activities with Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative. The NGO develops research opportunities and internships for Harvard Students.
Pre-Texts
An arts-based pedagogy that works like acupuncture: “Make art from this text” is a prompt that puts cognitive, emotional and social faculties in gear. The combination stimulates pleasure in learning for good results in mastery and mental health.
Renaissance Now
After a pandemic, the world is ready for change. Renewable resources abound in local participatory arts that decision makers in public leadership and private sectors can engage to address apparently intractable problems.
Cases for Culture
A collection of evidence-based illustrations, mostly from HBS, of participatory arts as resources for policymakers.
Latest News
- The Pre‑Texts Protocol Workshop, facilitated by Mara Boccaccio and Katia De la Cruz at the International Teaching & Learning Conference (University of Cape Town, […]
- Colombia has made history by recognizing arts education as a fundamental right through the new Artes al Aula law. From preschool to the end […]
- Public school students aged 14 to 16 participated in a full-day Pre-Texts program at the Central Library of Mönchengladbach, in connection with the exhibition […]
- CGM, Italy’s National Consortium of Social Cooperatives, carried out Pre-Texts training for 16 members across two sessions in Reggio Emilia and Desio. The workshop […]
- When we hosted an introductory workshop, Pre-Texts: The Arts Teach (Everything), participants experienced a deceptively simple creative pedagogy that transformed texts into raw material […]
- In January 2026, the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) in Chile will introduce Pre-Texts in its Summer School, offering first-year students access to academic skills, […]
- Hip-Hop Agora, founded by Boston-based artist Marlon Forrester, is an interdisciplinary program that connects hip-hop culture with art and architecture for high school students. […]
- Layli Brown, doctoral student of Afro-Latin American Studies at Harvard University represents Costa Rica in this regional Summit to advance rights, resources, and collaboration […]
- The XR Association’s CEO, Liz Hyman, spoke at Harvard University’s “Art & AI: A Conversation” on November 18, 2025. The forum was co-hosted by […]
- Harvard professors Tarun Khanna, Doris Sommer, and Moira Weigel offered a compelling talk on the growing relevance of the humanities across business, policy, and […]
- Colegios Verdes participated as a guest at the Festival of Oral Tradition of San Juan. In the afternoon, the team conducted a workshop based […]
- This November, TransCultural Exchange amplifies art’s power to give voice, connect, and inspire through the Fall of Freedom initiative—a nationwide movement of creative resistance […]