Streetside's Director Linda Johnson went to the
Americans for the Arts conference in Las Vegas last weekend. Wow! Las Vegas sure is noisy, hot, cold, and overstimulating!
One highlight was seeing friends from
The Crossroads Project, a groundbreaking community arts project based in New Orleans. They were the only arts education organization at the conference who actually brought youth with them, and led an amazing workshop that included african drumming.
Below, Mat, Matthew, Will and Roque from the Crossroads Project, along with Linda.
Another was seeing the
Neon Museum, which is currently not a museum, but a "neon boneyard" full of cool old signs from around Vegas. They are currently raising money to construct a museum. Below (and at top of page), signs from their collection.
Last but not least,
Sir Ken Robinson, who spoke at the conference. Sir Ken is a brilliant thinker who believes that our current, industrialized model of education, created to serve the needs of business, is serving neither business nor humans. He believes that restructuring education to make full use the natural human capacity for creativity through the arts is key to meeting the future. Watch him speak
here--he's very funny.
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