By Heather Myrick, Events Manager
Why are the arts important to you? I hope you can think of a few reasons. Maybe viewing the arts are a welcome moment to slow down from your fast-paced life, or perhaps expressing yourself through the arts helps you keep stress at bay. For me, being able to explore the symbolism in visual and performing arts has enabled me to be a more creative and independent thinker.
These ideas and the many more reasons we know arts education is so important makes P.S. ARTS proud and excited to share the collaborative efforts of our friends at LA Fund and the United Talent Agency Foundation as they bring you #ArtsMatter, a social media campaign to raise public awareness on the importance of arts education in schools. They have crafted this campaign to give people a voice in the future of arts education. They would like to see Twitter come to life with the many, many reasons people care about the arts.
Why do the arts matter to you? Tweet why here!
Ryan Seacrest, Shepard Fairey, Justin Bieber, Barbara Kruger and John Baldessariare will also be sharing their voices in support of arts education today. Shepard Fairey has even included the #ArtsMatter message into his latest work. Learn how the importance of arts education influenced one of his latest paintings. Reproductions of this particular painting will also appear on billboards throughout Los Angeles to further raise awareness on why arts education is important in public schools.
We have already tweeted our message! Be sure to have your voice heard as well!
