In this article, I examine the interplay of artist identity, creative agency, and the urgency of action through research with a teen arts internship at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans. The central research questions for the study focused on investigation of the contexts, narratives, activities, and consequences of artist identity formation. First, I offer a brief literature review of art education for social justice, activism, and creative agency. Then, I describe the use of social practice theory of identity and agency to interpret activist artist identity development within the research. Next, I delineate the use of portraiture as methodology to construct narrative portraits of the young artists of the study. Finally, I present data and analysis of the findings of the study of the contexts, narratives, activities, and consequences of activist artist identity work.

在这篇文章中，我通过在卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良的当代艺术中心进行青少年艺术实习的研究，研究了艺术家身份、创意机构和行动紧迫性之间的相互作用。该研究的核心研究问题集中在对艺术家身份形成的背景、叙事、活动和后果的调查上。首先，我对社会正义、激进主义和创意机构的艺术教育进行了简要的文献回顾。然后，我描述了使用身份和代理的社会实践理论来解释研究中的激进艺术家身份发展。接下来，我描述了使用肖像画作为方法来构建研究中年轻艺术家的叙事肖像。最后，我展示了对背景、叙述、活动、