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@whyartmatters
Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing, a NY Times piece on the neuroscience of enjoying music. When we connect with music, our brain releases dopamine, similar to what happens when we take certain drugs. The more we understand about this natural high, the closer we are to harnessing it for positive things such as music therapy.
10 Things We Can Learn from Street Artists
Hey Wooster Collective is turning 10 (yay happy bday!!) so they shared this cool list with us. These ppl don't just make pretty pictures, the work they do is relevant and can teach us a hell of a lot. Not to mention it makes concrete a whole lot more interesting.
This was my favorite photo from my organization's event CREATE THE VOTE. MASSCreative is an arts advocacy organization in Massachusetts and as part of our summer campaign we created this idea of an Arts Voter - someone who considers a candidates arts policy when voting.
Because - why not? Creative economy/ the arts have a huge impact on the well being of our communities and its about time someone made it a campaign priority.
Pedro Reyes: alchemist/magician//bamf
This guy had the idea to take guns (a certain metal object which has killed over 70,000 of his fellow Mexicans in the past 6 years) and imbue them with positive energy. He has taken them apart and turned them into musical instruments, formed them into furniture and decoration, and even melted them down and turned them into shovels. Then he planted trees with them. What ?!? Pedro you are the coolest. Read here
Who knew a pistol could put a seed in the ground - and not just a bullet in your head. Makes me think about a different kind of trigger happy
CARDBOARD CITY:
Props to this awesome New Zealand-based nonprofit Capital E for coming up with this project and hitting so many birds with one stone. Kids of all ages work together over a period of several days to build a city from scratch - using just cardboard. In addition to being a great use of recycled materials, this project gets kids excited about design, architecture, and city planning. It also acts as a platform for kids to discuss and reflect on what they think a city should be compared with the reality of cities today. Imagination applied to a long-term process of planning and execution - appears to me to be a pretty bamf assignment.
Further, this project is part of an annual festival called "Carnival of Creativeness" hosted by Capital E, an organization dedicated to children and their creativity. They describe the carnival as a "two-week extravaganza of creating for young people". Pretty much the sweetest idea ever and now I have one more reason to go to New Zealand besides cute accents and LOTR. Keep it up guys !!
8 Reasons to Partner with the Arts
Why does art matter? It exposes children to self-expression, respect for others, and appreciation of the world around them.
Found this in a random book store
How Arts Education Saved a Roxbury Public School
Orchard Gardens K-8 Public School in Roxbury used to have a definite "prison feel", according to new principal Andrew Bott. Bott, assuming the role of principal in 2010, made the decision to redirect the hundreds of thousands of dollars going towards security guards and spend it instead on art teachers. Now, 10% of the school's budget goes towards arts and physical education. The kids that were once shuffled from class to class, forbidden from wearing backpacks due to the risk of concealed weaponry, are now chillin with Yo-Yo Ma; walking through bright halls lined with paintings from their peers; attending ballet performances; and, as put by 8th grader Keyvaughn Little, "I've been more open, and I've expressed myself more than I would have before the arts have came".
Orchard Gardens now has one of the fastest student improvement rates state-wide. Even the principal admits that it may have been "a little crazy", but the switch has obviously worked in the kids' favor.
Some more wisdom from our friend Keyvaughn, whose grades have improved due to increased confidence from his new art classes: "There's no one particular way of doing something, and art helps you like see that".
Read more here or here or here
From MOCAtv, a brief documentary look at street art and artists in Palestine.
Via @tsweden.
From MOCAtv, a brief documentary look at street art and artists in Palestine
I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It’s so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made.
Jonathan Safran Foer (via simply-quotes)
Creativity is intelligence having fun
Albert Einstein (via itsve-ipad-drawing)
American artist Bart Vargas’s ”Bottleballs,” salvaged plastic bottles glued onto cardboard globes.
Did you know?
In 2010, the United States generated almost 14 million tons of plastics as containers and packaging, almost 11 million tons as durable goods, such as appliances, and almost 7 million tons as nondurable goods, for example plates and cups.
Only 8 percent of the total plastic waste generated in 2010 was recovered for recycling.
[Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More info in this EPA fact sheet here.]
Plastic bottles = art.
(via sarah betti - fotocommunity)
Plastic bottles = art.
"Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before"
-Shel Silverstein
more wisdom
“We all make sense of the world by seeing it in terms of the stories we’ve heard”
-Michael Frayn
or the pictures we’ve seen, or the songs we’ve listened to. Michael, i feel you thanks for droppin that wisdom on us all
