Through partnerships with the University of Pittsburgh, Spelman College, and Johnson C. Smith University, this initiative explores questions about how to center equity and racial justice through creative, arts-infused innovation in education. Initiated through the leadership of Dr. Valerie Kinloch, President of Johnson C. Smith University, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh has hosted numerous Genius, Joy, and Love programs in different formats.

Each program convenes adults and youth for intergenerational experiences through which they reflect on their identities, lives and literacies; center their hopes, desires, dreams and themselves as significant in our movement toward freedom; critically examine meanings of equity in learning; and lovingly understand the valuable role played by our very own creativities, such as poetry, spoken word, art and song.

To request more info about Genius, Joy, and Love and other educator offerings – contact pd@pittsburghkids.org.