Meet the Teachers  at Youth Art Exchange Exhibit at Red Rocks (Morrison, Colorado)

Ben Quinn GOAL: To encourage a paradigm shift regarding the classification and support of the arts as ?non-essential? among policy makers and funding foundations. The exchange will illustrate the arts? place as a crucial piece of a growing new economic model for Colorado based on creative industries, as presented through the wealth of talent in Colorado?s youth population. A self-sustaining lifestyle can be achieved, particularly in very remote areas, for artists, artisans and makers, starting from a young age, if ad ... read moreequate marketplace infrastructure and development are implemented and nurtured. Thus, support for the arts can help create statewide marketplaces and engines that would promote economic opportunity and better quality of life for rural and urban communities alike. Send compliment