work of art.: 2012

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.