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The National Campaign to Hire Artists to Work in Schools Embraces National Green Arts Corps

by Jennifer Lance on January 16, 2009 · 1 comment

Hire artists to work in the schools as part of a National Green Arts CorpsEditor’s note: The following post was written by Michael D. Nolan and was sent to me by the Community Arts and Murals Blog. This is something I strongly believe in as a teacher and artists, and I love the idea of a Green Arts Corps.

The National Campaign to Hire Artists to Work in Schools

By Michael D. Nolan

Some of our nation’s greatest artists will join Barack Obama on center stage for the historic presidential Inaugural on January 20.  Yo-Yo Ma, Aretha Franklin, Itzhak Perlman and poet Elizabeth Alexander will lend their exceptional creative talents to an event financed to a large degree by Hollywood artists like Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Stone and Steven Spielberg.

Ironically, these great artists grew up in environments which fostered the arts in the schools.

Today, when it comes to national policy and Congressional appropriations, artists are relegated offstage.  Just about every major civilized country has a Ministry of Culture functioning at a Cabinet level.  Our small National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities are lucky each budget cycle if they can survive decimation or demise. [read the full article...]

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