Comments on: Happen http://cincyvoices.com/2010/05/04/happen/ Handing Cincinnati a Megaphone Tue, 01 May 2012 05:15:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Loki http://cincyvoices.com/2010/05/04/happen/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Loki Tue, 04 May 2010 20:18:18 +0000 http://cincyvoices.com/?p=409#comment-439 "Someone told me once that a community needs to be wealthy to afford the arts, but I think it is the other way around – it is the arts that lifts people from poverty and inspires them to do greater things." So dead on! The snobby stereotype of art falls short, as most stereotypes do, in the face of reality. Art is about creation and passion, and Happen Inc seems to be vibrantly alive with both of these qualities. When my wife and I returned home to NOLA after Katrina and the Levee Failure one of the first things we saw was people putting up folk art street signs to replace the ones that had been blown away. In the midst of the destruction seeing a handpainted two by four nailed up on a post with the street name colorfully painted on it ad surrounded by flower designs raised our spirits in a way that the Red Cross could not. It is all about celebrating the vitality of existence in my opinion. Art is the truest expression of the human soul that I can think of. “Someone told me once that a community needs to be wealthy to afford the arts, but I think it is the other way around – it is the arts that lifts people from poverty and inspires them to do greater things.”

So dead on! The snobby stereotype of art falls short, as most stereotypes do, in the face of reality. Art is about creation and passion, and Happen Inc seems to be vibrantly alive with both of these qualities.

When my wife and I returned home to NOLA after Katrina and the Levee Failure one of the first things we saw was people putting up folk art street signs to replace the ones that had been blown away. In the midst of the destruction seeing a handpainted two by four nailed up on a post with the street name colorfully painted on it ad surrounded by flower designs raised our spirits in a way that the Red Cross could not. It is all about celebrating the vitality of existence in my opinion.

Art is the truest expression of the human soul that I can think of.

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