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.