
Graphic: Anna Cass, CAST ’21
Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST):
Learn about art-making. Learn to harness community power. Collaborate with teams of people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Become aware of yourself as a listener, and listen with qualities of presence that elicit difficult-to-tell stories. Identify sources of resilience.
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CAST Commitments, in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The interdisciplinary program in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST) condemns white supremacy, anti-Black violence, police brutality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the many additional everyday violences against Black people through which individuals, groups, and institutions in the United States perpetuate the legacy of slavery and benefit from doing so. Read more.
Spring 2022 Course Offerings
Courses for the Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation minor are from the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Photo Credit: Jaime Black
Jaime Black | between us
November 9, 2021- February 25, 2022
Kniznick Gallery
Curated by CAST Chair Dr. Toni Shapiro-Phim
Water. Stone. Twigs. Bodies. The color red. These elements appear throughout Jaime Black’s exhibition, between us, honoring the interdependence between humankind and the natural and spiritual worlds. The artist, of mixed Anishinaabe and Finnish descent, focuses special attention on Indigenous women’s potency in all these realms as nurturers, as trust-builders, as knowledge-holders and knowledge-givers.
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Minor Requirements
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