Logan Myles Stacer

Logan Myles Stacer is a transdisciplinary artist, activist and educator based in Kansas City, Kansas. Graduating with an MA in Art and Public Policy from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Logan’s work explores a critical remembering of history and a radical imagining of the future.

Logan’s many identities converged and developed during his undergraduate years at Kansas State University. There, he balanced a national leadership position as Student Representative of the American Forensics Association, a competitive performance career as a national champion public speaker for Kansas State’s speech team, a campus activist role that led to him performing original poetry at the University’s presidential inauguration, all while starting and maintaining a teaching career– where he worked in California middle and high schools in the summer and taught college classes during the school year.

His tenacity landed him in New York City where he continued to improve all areas of his expertise. Logan’s arrival was marked by his acceptance into the #BARS Hip-Hop Theatre workshop at the New York Public Theater, where he spent two months learning from Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Rafael Casal (Blindspotting). During his nine-month MA at NYU, he again balanced art making with teaching, working as a speech and debate coach for both Stuyvesant High School (New York City, NY) and Concordia University of Nebraska (Seward, NE), an effort, in combination with his academic achievement, that was recognized with a President’s Service Award for his leadership in the community.

Since graduating in May of 2019, Logan has won poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café, studied sketch comedy writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center, assisted Anna Deavere Smith’s Performing Narratives NYU graduate class, facilitated the Theater of Change course at Columbia Law School, and created his own arts activism workshop in Atlanta, GA, partnering with the ACLU to use art to fight against voter suppression.

Logan is currently the 11^th and 12^th grade Fine Arts teacher at the Ewing Marion Kauffman School in Kansas City, MO. He is also the founder of HE[ART]LAND, a company that connects artists, policy experts, and community members across the Midwest to expand its capacity to produce creative leaders.

Follow his personal IG/Twitter @LoganSMyles and his nonprofit IG/Twitter @HeartlandArtsKC  

What drew you to the MA Arts Politics program?

I saw Arts Politics as a one-of-a-kind, interdisciplinary, and emerging department that wouldn't make me choose between my passions and talents. I fell in love with the department the summer before my junior year and by the time senior year rolled around it was the only graduate program I applied to.