Adopt The Arts

An old classmate of mine, Matt Sorum,  became a drummer for well known rock bands, and is now giving back through a non-profit call Adopt the Arts. adopthearts.com  He is working with other celebrities to encourage and promote the arts in public schools. Please support this incredible cause.  The arts are so important to children's healthy development, well being, and learning! In Matt's case, music helped him through a tough emotional time as a child. Taking the arts out of the schools  hamstrings a child with the rest of their learning. It makes no sense. My son's teacher could no longer use art in her classroom because it was not directly related to improving test scores, not even to support academic subjects.  This kind of circular reasoning is short of insanity.  Please support the arts in public schools by supporting organizations like Adopt the Arts, or better yet, get involved with your local PTA and help your school keep the arts alive.

Cacophony not for Kids

The current exhibit at the Fullerton College Art Center in Santa Ana features The Cacophony Society. A group of "artists" who like surrealist sabotage, gluing toasters to light posts, filling teddy bears with cement and placing them on actual store shelves, and this is just the tame part of their activities. The exhibit itself is disturbing. The overtones are violent, depressing, destructive, and brutal.  There is no positive energy in the exhibit. Just immaturity. One of the featured exhibits shows members in a bathroom rubbing what looks like excrement on themselves and others. We'd like to hope our kids stop playing with their poop by two years of age, not twenty! This society seems comprised of adults who do not want to grow up. Whereas the rest of us realized  we must grow or die, this groups philosophy seems like they'd rather die then grow. 
Keep the kids away from this one. Adults  who feel nostalgic for their crazy adolescence can probably get a kick out of it.