Community Voices: Issues and Impact

Community Voices: Issues and Impact are forums sponsored by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Started as donor forums, their goal now is to promote dialogue between all sectors of the community. In addition, we hope to catalyze efforts by the community to make a difference and to mobilize philanthropy.

Friday, October 13, 2006

October 26 Forum: If You Can't Make Money, Why Make Art?

We're back! Join us for a new dialogue to explore with our community's young people a new question:

If You Can't Make Money, Why Make Art?

Thursday, October 26, 2006
5:30 p.m.
ACES Educational Center for the Arts
55 Audubon Street, 2nd floor, New Haven, CT
See below for directions and parking

Refreshments and sandwiches will be served.

RSVP by Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Click here to register or call 777.2386 x444
Questions? Call Angel Fernández-Chavero, 777.2386 x216
Or by email, afernandez@cfgnh.org

This is the tenth in a series of donor-community conversations. And the third 2006 conversation with youth.

Tell us what you think NOW! Help us shape this forum. Give us your comments:
  • Do you need art? Does art make a difference? What does art mean to you?
  • Why study art in school? Should schools even teach art?
  • Is making money the only good reason to become an artist?
  • Is making money the wrong reason to become an artist?

Directions and Parking to

ACES Education Center for the Arts
55 Audubon Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 777-5451

DIRECTIONS
The Center is located on the corner of Audubon and Orange, across from The Community Foundation and Housing Authority offices. Use the Audubon Street entrance, immediately across the street from the parking garage.

FROM I-95
Take I-95 to I-91 North.
See I-91 instructions below.

FROM I-91
Take Exit 3.
At the end of the ramp, turn left onto Orange Street.
Turn right onto Grove Street.
Turn right onto Whitney Avenue.
Turn right onto Audubon Street.

PARKING:
The entrance to Audubon Court Parking Garage is located to your right as you come down Audubon Street, just before The Community Foundation building.

posted by The Community Foundation @ 10:32 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At 4:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    life is meant to be an art form and when your life is art you never have to work and are a success because you are happy creating. when you create art you lose track of time and are in the healthiest state your body can ever achieve.

    also when your life is art your energy is directed into creating life and not destruction or killing. if you can, get a copy of the book 'the art spirit' by robert henri and margery ryerson. if you can't find one i can send you a quote from it about when the artist is alive in a person.

    making money doesn't make you a success. winning the lottery creates misery for 95% of the lottery winners in one study. when your lord is material things rather than
    spiritual and creative things your life becomes meaningless.

    peace
    bernie siegel, md

     

  • At 4:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Here are the words from the art spirit: When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he (or she) becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens the ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows there are still more pages possible. The world would stagnate without him, and the world would be beautiful with him; for he is interesting to himself and he is interesting to others. He does not have to be a painter or sculptor to be an artist. He can work in any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, and not outside it.
    That says it all. The reward is in creation and re-creation. We are all works of art. We are blank canvases and we create who we are and when you mess up just forgive yourself, apologize and start again and retouch the painting or as the parable tells us rework the clay as the potter did to teach Jeremiah a lesson.
    As a portrait painter and physician I can tell you when you paint your portrait and get to know yourself you will appreciate the true value of art. Money may tell you who you are too by whether you use it to create art or greed. A young man I know said his father ruined his life by giving him a million dollars because he hd to be a success. What if he had started a charity for homeless, starving people? Would his father have thrown him out?

    Peace
    Bernie Siegel, MD

     

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