Thursday, October 10, 2013

Re:Expression



From the mind, creation begins.

We're Re:Expression. We're an interest group that focuses on the importance on art in the general sense.

Our mission?  

When educational money runs short, the art programs are first to go. Therefore, we aim to preserve art programs in schools. Our art group is dedicated to spreading artistic values and encourage creativity throughout schools in America.

Benefits?
  • Art promotes creativity.
  • Art allows students to express themselves and not just follow rules and directions.
  • Art is important to those who aren't athletic or can't participate in physical activities.
  • Studies show that art helps children with their academic and social development because they are taught to be persistent, learn from mistakes, to make critical judgments, and justify those judgments.
  • Art allows the mind to think out-of-the-box and helps our nation with new, innovating things.
Our goal?

Our goal is to petition the government to acknowledge the Arts as a way to get students involved in school. We want to show the government the importance of the Arts by promoting creativity and opening their minds to innovative thinking.

The Arts can lead to inventions and break through technology as they become more open and are able to express themselves in artistic ways.

It opens the door for people who are not athletically capable, lack athleticism, or do not come for sports to find a safe haven. The Arts is an option for those who like to differ from the norm or don't fit into a specific category.

Art

Art leads to better technology, creation ideas which stream from imagination, inventions, architecture, paintings, mosaics, video games, dramas, movies, buildings, and much more that have an impact on our lives whether or not we know it.

Promotion?

To promote Re:Expression, we plan on holding art festivals and fairs, to showcase peoples talent. Hopefully doing so inspires people to join our group and help promote the idea that art is important. Along with art fairs and festivals, we will also organize trips to art museums and art institutes so that aspiring artists have an opportunity to be exposed to other artists and make new connections.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Graffiti = Art?

I wanted to explain a situation where Re:Expression would be relevant. Though it's a fictional show, the series Switched at Birth displays an excellent example of why art should be promoted.

In the show, a sixteen-year-old named Bay is the artistic one in her family. Of course, her parents are supportive, but they want her to do something different when she grows up. Bay was disheartened by it many times, but she continues to express herself through her art.

She went around town and put up spray paint pictures on old walls, or already defaced walls with graffiti. Her parents don't know, though they do find out later on. This is the key idea of the show: her parent's aren't that supportive to the point where they wouldn't mind if she made this her career, but they still like that Bay can express herself. The problem that rises is that Bay's father comments on how this graffiti is ruining their town, since Bay had spray painted her father's car wash to join an art gang of sorts, and he's indirectly calling her art graffiti.

Eventually, she does tell her parents the truth that she had been going around town, doing this so-called "graffiti", and she doesn't plan on stopping.

This could be a possible outcome to a not so serious situation. If young teenagers and young adults can't express themselves, what are they left with? They have no way to show how they feel about anything--school, work, friends, family, etc. Letting them have their cake and eat it too makes them feel more at peace with their selves and everyone else.

Although it's not sure if situations like these happen in real life, everyone, especially the government, should realized that cutting art programs limits peoples' chance of self-expression. It's simply not fair to those who express themselves in non-popular ways to suffer from budget cuts.

If schools can support sports till the end of time, they can support the arts, too.