ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the emergence of a novel object in arts education, the Oklahoma City Girls Arts School, serves as a way of engaging in anti-oppressive action through the arts and creative activity. It offers a perspective on this object in terms of its theory of action and shows how the school is a product of entrepreneurial action to bring about a new form of arts-based education operating outside of the boundaries of the public school system. Protecting and advancing the distinctiveness can serve as an essential aim of action resulting in the creation of alternative organizations operating outside of traditional institutional boundaries. The Oklahoma City Girls Arts School represents one of the social enterprises. The social enterprises adopt a specific focus on the provision of arts education to underserved neighborhoods, prioritize the creative development of children, and compensate for the withdrawal of public schools from arts education occurring through either rationing of such education or its total elimination.
