WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS CRAZY OLD WORLD?!

WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF TUMOIL AND RAPID CHANGE

                                        all images are from google for education only

IT IS EASY TO BE OVERCOME BY THE SHEAR SPEED OF IT ALL, GOOD OR BAD

BAD NEWS IS FOCUSED ON MORE OFTEN…

MORE PRESS MORE MONEY.  

IT SEEMS 
THAT OUR WORLD IS OUT OF CONTROL AND THERE IS TOO MUCH NEGATIVE THAT IS 
HAPPENING.   WE COULD BE FEARFUL AND SUSPICIOUS SURROUNDED BY ALL OF THIS,
BUT THERE IS MUCH GOOD HAPPENING. THE POSITIVE  IT IS SO HIDDEN IN SMALL PRINT WHILE THE HEADLINES SCREAM OUT ALL THE TURMOIL AND THE  

THE NEW WORST BEHAVIOR  DIMS ALL ELSE IN THE NOISE OF DATA AND SOCIAL MEIDA.

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SO, LET US FOCUS ON SOME REALLY GREAT THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS WORLD!  


THE ARTS HELP US DO JUST THAT, FOCUS ON THE GOOD!

HERE IS ONE GROUP THAT I CHAMPION AS DO GOODERS!

PLAYING FOR CHANGE

STAND BY ME

We focus on visual arts here at Rabbit Moon Studio a good bit, but we believe in art, all arts. Each form of art enters your soul and speaks to you in its own unique way that no other art can do. Music moves us emotionally, physically and vibrates our being!  

NO MORE WAR/TROUBLE

This is a group that does good in this world, that reaches out through music to all people, across all races, across all economic levels, and genders to build peace and understanding among people. Through the love of music they have found a common language all people can relate to no matter their culture, religion, or political beliefs.  I urge you to support them, share them with all your friends, and play them often for yourself.  It will give you hope, it will make you smile and it will make you realize there are good people doing good things in this world while all the other garbage just whirls around us.  SO LETS FOCUS ON THE GOOD!
SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT BY FOCUSING ON GOOD BRINGS MORE GOOD IN YOUR LIFE AND IN THE WORLD! LET'S GIVE IT A TRY! GO OUT THERE MAKE ART AND DO GOOD!

WHEN ART DOES GOOD IT IS A VERY GOOD THING!

NEW ORLEANS BUBBLE BEAD DOG SCULPTURES


Art can be an individual expression, it can be for private sale, or in a gallery or museum, but when art is a public project meant to be shared with all for a good cause it can be very powerful.   There are wonderful examples of public art sculptures and murals around the world.  Cities often fund sculptures or murals, but a new venue is one we are all becoming more familiar with.  The original idea came from a Swiss architect and then was brought to the United States. We have seen it with the Cows on Parade Sculptures in Chicago, horses in Kentucky and pigs in Cleveland and fish and more in other towns...but it is when a city or area choses one basic form they reproduce and choose many different artist to participate in decorating them.  Usually another part of the fund raising is when the sculptures are auctioned off.

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Recently when I was in New Orleans I noticed funny looking little bubble dog sculptures about, all decorated differently.  I wondered what it was about.  I even took a few pictures from a moving car, not great photo's, but you will get the idea.

New Orleans/Metairie photo by Elizabeth Gordon

The following is a description by a New Orleans publication Nola of what the project is about:


With dozens of bulbous, canine-esque statues dotting Metairie and New Orleans, the push to raise awareness of animal cruelty is in full swing. The sculptures, dubbed “bead dogs,” are helping to spread the message of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals by mimicking earlier public art projects that produced vibrantly painted streetcars and 
fish along the sidewalks.


So far 32 sculptures have been installed in the Paws on Parade effort, with another score being built, LeBlanc said. The pieces are in Metairie and New Orleans, and the SPCA is open to installing them in communities farther away from the city center, she said.

New Orleans/Metairie  photo by Elizabeth Gordon

A side note is a project I did with young students when i was teaching.  We had studied the Cows on Parade in Chicago and decided to do a public art project with the students and raise funds for a reading program at our school.  The project brought together students, artists, businesses, galleries, and the community.  It was called Deer on Parade.  I will talk more of this in a separate article for art teachers.  It was a highly successful project that brought together over 25 artists, 400 students, the Florida Craftsmen Art Guild, and the community of St. Petersburg. Everyone involved in the project felt as if it was magic!