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 Centerpiece Flower Shop will open its doors on October 18th, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, as a space dedicated to dialogue […]
- At the Liceo Da Vinci in Pescara, Italy, the launch of a Pre-Texts workshop brought together 20 teachers from across disciplines along with two […]
- In July, the Mönchengladbach Stadtbibliothek, under the leadership of Yilmaz Holtz-Ersahin, hosted the Sommer Lese Club based on the Pre-Texts methodology. Over five weeks, […]
- On September 2, the Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán Campus (Chile) welcomed our facilitators Paulina Núñez and Francisca Poblete for a Pre-Texts workshop. They traveled […]
- This September, after a dedicated process of documentation, we present two videos that gather many of the testimonies collected during Pre-Texts workshops in Mexico. […]
- You are warmly invited to join UNGA Healing Arts Week, taking place from 20–26 September 2025 alongside the 80th Session of the UN General […]
- At Kings Chapel in Boston, artist Harmonia Rosales unveiled her commissioned monument to freedom, a work that honors the enduring spirit and resilience of […]
- In our recent meeting with the Cultural Agents “weavers,” participants from diverse countries and contexts came together to share their progress, commitments, and innovative […]
- Between August 18 and 22, 2025, the Centro de Formación Permanente (CFP) in Uruguay hosted an in-person Pre-Texts training course led by Professor Doris […]
- Watch the video here! From July 1st to 7th, 2025, a week-long workshop took place at Shun Lee Catholic Secondary School (SLCSS) in Hong […]
- On September 23 and 25, at the Publishing House of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá Campus, we will host a special workshop: Pre-Texts: […]
- Blueprints for Arts and Policy in collaboration with Cultural Agents are delighted to share the invitation to our upcoming Salon, “The Critical Role of […]