WHAT’S YOUR ART STORY?

Think you’re not creative? You’re selling yourself short! We believe that everyone is inherently creative. We asked CAA Board Members to share their introduction to the Arts. Follow along for inspiration!

So when asked where something of Interest in my life originated from, I find it difficult to pin-point. That’s with anything...Professionally or Personally. Even Love (except for giving Birth...that was instant) takes time and situations.

With Art though, and when I realized it was exciting, I think back to the times my uncle dragged us to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to watch musicians and dancers perform, or when my Mom made me go to the Library after school on Wednesdays because they had Poetry readings at our local Branch. Maybe it was the MOMA school trips or the Graffiti that was everywhere as I rode the NYC Subway. The street murals that moved with you, or the RIP images for the Fallen neighborhood loved-ones on sides of buildings. Maybe it was just the Music!

Growing up in NYC, the Art of Music was always in our homes/ life and then the popularity of Freestyle cyphers, Dj-ing and Hip Hop allowed me to experience Art in a different way. Allowing the stories of my youth to be expressed on rotation.

I don’t have a favorite. It’s ALL great to me. Sculptures, Theater, Orchestra, Canvas, Aluminum, Opera, Abstract, Wood carving. Capoeira. It’s Matter (no pun intended) being turned into something that was NOT before....Growth, expression, flexibility; each in its own space and available for me/you/us to interpret how I see or feel or hear it. The “feeling” that Art I had a big imagination as a child and would spend hours thinking. Worrying, wishing and finding peace within the paintings my Parents had in our home (not expensive or originals but nice)

The Cultural Arts Alliance, the little GEM in the smallest town I’ve ever lived in, has continued to introduce the Universal language of Art to it’s Members, Board and Volunteers in ways that some would never imagine...packaged in bags that most people wouldn’t open. Thanks for that!

Best thing is….the Story continues.