“What you’re seeing is empty businesses, empty schools, empty playgrounds. What is the emotional toll that takes? How can we replace some of that emptiness with images of hope, resilience, anger, and also dreams of a future that is hopefully not far off?” –Mark Strandquist, Mural Arts Philadelphia
Tag: arts
community-driven artist residencies in Mississippi
“You soak people in enough imagination, they see in each other what they can create.” –daniel johnson
quote from Wynton Marsalis
“The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we’ve come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we’d know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.” —Wynton Marsalis
quote from Bonnie Raitt
“The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.” —Bonnie Raitt