[Mpls] Arts in the Mpls schools

[Dorie Rae Gallagher]

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>
> Mark Anderson writes
> We seem to be mostly going around in circles.  I've been trying to find
out
> from the "arts in education" advocates why it is so important to teach the
> arts.  The discussion is not about banning the arts in Minneapolis, or
even
> in the schools.  The discussion is about the need for TEACHING the arts.
> The arts will always exist whether we teach them or not.  >
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> So the question I would like answered is "WHY is teaching of the arts
> necessary for a complete education?"  And please don't explain the
necessity
> of the arts in society; I'd like to know why they need to be TAUGHT in our
> public schools.

Dorie writes...the post on Art was written over a week ago and just entered
this AM so this
might be my third post but really the second by me!

 Why teach Art? Because some people want to be artists and not science/ math
geniuses.  What seems a  hundred years ago...I won a national science
contest..my project was feeding different vitamins to tomato plants and
measuring their growth pattern per vitamin which was interesting since
vitamins are water/fat soluble with cloting variables; which would affect a
plant different than in a person's body.. right? Well, I am not going to
tell you... I loved science but was also guided towards the arts because I
happened to be good in the field. After graduating, I went to  MCAD.  Been a
self supporting artist all my life, have made a very  good living without
playing in a band,  my friends have all had great careers in the arts and
this  is why you teach art in schools. We are talking about choices in
education and life style....I would not ask you to give up your math
class...don't ask me to give up my art class. You TEACH art because art is a
career and it is as important as any other subject. Let us not be so dense
to say art is coming before reading, writing and arithmetic...this is
elementary.. except to our current leadership.

596 animal pictures painted on the walls of Lascaux caves in France have
lasted for 15,000 years since the last Ice Age...That's  ART and education.

Dorie Rae Gallagher
Nokomis
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