I Walk in Your Name
So, I asked my boyfriend what his cause would be, he asked me to walk in the name of the arts. As a musician he is concerned about the education of music and the arts within the school systems, and complains do me on a daily basis, that at his little sisters school they don’t offer enough classes geared toward music or even regular art classes. I believe he told me once that there is only one art class offered and two music classes, the rest where all considered extra circular. So once again as we got into a aggravating conversation about what he would want me to do to make people aware he began to discuss the idea of having a festival or parade of sorts that would involve bands playing and art being displayed. He began to go on that there should be different classes during these festivals that would give parents and children the opportunity to get involved with art and music, and form there opinions on whether this cause is worth fighting for, there will also be information about what classes are offered with-in the school districts and statics about the low rate of music and art classes offered in elementary, middle, and high schools through-out the country. After we talked about what he would want me to do to the extreme, I asked him if i where just to walk around tucson in the name of the arts what would you want me to feel, and observe. He said that I should feel for the kids you don’t get the opportunity to experience the arts, those who don’t get to experience what he loves about music, and I love about photography. And then he asked me to observe the art on the walls as I made my walk, what did I see and if I was inspired by the art that I saw. So before I walked I began to think if I would help him in his awareness of the arts, and I came to the conclusion that I would, If he were to get this festival in the works I would help him in anyway I could because art is what I love also, and to think that many kids don’t experience it is heart breaking. After I went on my walk and tried to consider everything that me and my boyfriend had discussed I noticed a lot more public art and private art. But the one thing that kept running through my mind was, if kids aren’t exposed to art as we once where, will there still be people making art 30 years from now?
