Last week, I went to an appreciation dinner for a number of our students who run organizations, clubs, the Student Alliance (yeah, we take it Star Wars down here), etc...
And I learned that, in addition to being artists and scholars, our students have been up to the following things:
-making mosaics for local hospitals
-painting murals for a local retirement home
-tutoring inner city children
-planning and constructing a garden for that same retirement home
-raising money for Haiti
And that's just the stuff I can remember off the top of my head.
So, next time anyone wants to start perpetuating stereotypes of art students as being dyed-hair, mohawked, black-clad, no bathing, disenfranchised weirdos and anti-socials...
...you'd better add community-builders and philanthropists to the list.
Nicely done, artists. Way to be part of the solution. Keep going, and many thanks.
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Gadsby is the one the initiates and facilitates all of thee activities. without her, the students would be doing any of these things.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget they empty all of the recycling, and started the recycling program themselves before Jonathan got here. They also organized their own prom! Nobody's asked me to go this year....
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