Indeed, endurance of gendered and racialized colonization, enslavement, and oppression that would be continued for centuries required very compelling, sustaining, persuasive beliefs and nurtured investments in finding and creating soul-nurturing art and experience-verified praxis-guiding thoughtfulness.
It is,after all, a country that has nurtured numerous international art stars and has plenty of government support for the arts but has not had a coast-to-coast biennial since 1989.
Steve Sabol was born Oct. 2, 1942, in Moorestown, N.J., and while growing up nurtured two great passions: art, whose appreciation he got from his mother Audrey, who befriended up-and-coming artists and hung their work in the Sabol home; and football, a craving he developed on his own.
Campers sang folk songs, nurtured vegetables, pursued the arts and, unusual in an era of regimented camps, were encouraged to plan their own time.
He hasn't been extracted from another combat sport or nurtured via traditional martial arts.
It's a place where art is experienced, nurtured and created.
After years on the defensive, arts groups were suddenly nurtured as part of an agenda to improve education, regenerate cities, and empower minorities and poor people.
Mrs. Obama described the nation's creative spirit as critical to its ideals and its identity, and said the arts needed to be nurtured even during difficult economic times.
This summer, some of us are hoping to nurture a space where spirituality, justice, and art meet: a space where political divisions find peaceable expression, where the common good is nurtured and where we transcend the dehumanization of people with whom we disagree.
Plenty of us are probably meant not to have children -- maybe our art is our baby, something to be nurtured and then sent off into the world.
And at a time when many public schools are being forced to cut music and art from the curriculum, the story's insistence on the healing power of a nurtured imagination is both welcome and essential.
