Wake Up Rally-Central High school,The School of Visual and Performing in Arts LA

Here is a link to some news about this powerful event @ Arts for LA

Wake Up Rally-Central High school,The School of Visual and Performing in Arts LA

On May 24th, I had the amazing experience of launching, the new and expanded ARTcart in LA at an Arts Advocacy Rally in downtown, Los Angeles. I arrived at around 2:30 p.m. set up my SoCal mobile ARTcart and then I offered the activists at the Wake Up California Arts Advocacy Rally, which was at the stunning Central High school,The School of Visual and Performing in Arts. to make ART signs for free. It was an fantastic success as folks were creating such amazing and powerful signs to carry on the march with them.

The architecture at this high school is extraordinary.

It opened 2009 and was designed by the firm Coop Himmelbau.

I would be so cool to be a teacher and a student at

this amazing creative hub.

The Wake Up California Arts Advocacy Rally had several hundred lively people show up. There was two youth bands and speakers. The action gathering was to bring much needed attention to the looming governmental cuts in the State of California school funding. Sadly and ignorantly, Arts are the first to be cut. It is so short sighted and so counter productive to kill Arts programs in schools. All governmental officials should be required to take a course with Sir Ken Robinson As I am a true believer in the intrinsic power of ART and its expansive benefits, I was very happy to be at the Rally. I was invited to collaborate by the arts advocacy group Arts for LA and The ARTcart was a total success!! I feel ARTcarts need to be at every rally in the world! Creating ART adds such a different dimension to the traditional rally.

Below are some images from the Rally @ the ARTcart LA. I have a feeling we will be invited to more rally's! Art and activism are perfect partners in the shifting of the old paradigm.

The ARTcart at the WakeUp LA Rally, a set on Flickr.

Community ARTreach! ART=EMPOWERMENT

The ARTcart will be at the Wake Up California! Downtown LA rally

on May 24th.

We will be creating ART signs for FREE.

Folks can come out express their concerns, frustrations, joys, and visions through Art and its process. For this event I am volunteering and collaborating with the arts advocacy group, Arts for LA.

Join Us!

Let your ART and Creativity be a demonstration of your Powerful Voice!

Wake Up California! Downtown LA edition

• Tuesday, May 24 · 3:00pm - 4:30pm
• School of Visual and Performing Arts, 450 North Grand Ave. Los Angeles, California

More Info:

Parents and concerned citizens are coordinating a statewide day of action to increase awareness for the crisis facing California public schools and the need for our legislators to take action and pass the revenue extension measures to secure school funding.
Let's come to show how much we love our schools, our teachers, our kids, our community. Please come, make a sign, bring your friends, bring your kids.

Speakers to be announced. The ARTcart will have free art making on site.
For more information, visit Educate Our State. Org

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher