Reply #48: The vast, pendulous majority of Americans simply do not care... [View All]

[bridgit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc And the vast majority of them are dithered :dilemma: between art as an American Quilt for endless rehabilitating bush/Cheney/MIC combat veterans, beaded crocheted/macramed tea cozys, pot holders and plant hangers, a field full of early corn able to pay off that dual-ie, a Hummer and a yacht and up front tickets to a Toby Keith concert - and until that image improves,

America will not be able to Sham-Wow it's own Art Ass in the dark with both hands and an Energizer Bunny


The upside, however, is that I still use my degree in my field though not always in ways I thought that I would. Fortunately, if anything is conveyed by a liberal arts education it is to apply an open mind assuming you have one. Which was why I thought it best to put it together as a double major in performance, yes; but theater admin, production design, etc, that flowed into consulting stuff and was able to meet-up with the staging/positioning of a whole host of other artful disciplines

Our friends and associates are largely comprised of performance & visual artists. Some of them work as accountants. Some are civil engineers. One comes to mind: a light opera singer - commanding voice & range - that verifies federal HC options, compliance/satisfaction, payments/benefits/service data for California and four other western states so you know he's busy, but his heart is stitched with liberal arts

We were all at a combo Birthday/New Years Party just the other day and I found hubby in the kitchen talking with a friend about her student load, off campus (a sizable number of symph musicians are able to round out their fiscals by teaching - and this can be an area first impacted); as to whether she had experienced any flattening in interest or activity. She asked for some clarification, but soon she was following the sine waves he was making with his fingers and she agreed: that what she had experienced was more like a paring down of interest, and not a falling away

My husband confirmed by saying his folks sold the family piano to help pay for his dad's gaul bladder operation

I think the short of if is that however grand and art-filled our visions of ourselves may justifiably be...we cannot all be Van Cliburn, Yo-Yo Ma, or Andy Warhol - but even that does not mean that we are not able to incorporate our 'fall back' position into our liberal arts http://www.artcenter.edu/accd/programs/graduate/industrial_design.jsp