CReArC Global is a collaborative network founded by scholars in music and arts from across the globe. The founding members span four continents, encompassing varied backgrounds, diverse interests, and a wide range of methodologies and approaches.

The aim of the network is the formation of an international community of scholars, educators, and practitioners for whom the framework of Artistic Citizenship impacts their approaches to arts and arts education. Artistic Citizenship encompasses perspectives on music and arts that relate to social inclusion, education, and artistic practices and their reception, among others. This includes the development and empowerment of individuals and communities within (co-) creative, just, and cooperative (democratic) contexts, whether at conceptual, institutional, or systemic levels. 

Researchers in the network are involved in different studies and projects that relate to the topics mentioned above. CReArC Global is thus a forum in which we develop and share new ideas, studies, publications and collaborations.The ideas behind the concept of Artistic Citizenship have the prospective to unfold the art institutions’ capacity for contributing in diverse ways to the cultural and artistic engagement of all citizens in society.

Artistic Citizenship holds strong notions of inclusion and co-productive creativity that tangibly can involve individual and communities to increasingly participate in creative art processes. Such processes that can enhance and enforce people’s creative agency and general quality of life from a life-long perspective. Therefore, CReArC Global aims at being the pivot of such research and research-based activities.