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Laura Turley 
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Re: “Art Crime in Winooski”

"If you're angry, why wouldn't you direct that at something that symbolizes what you're angry at?”

In my experience, art sometimes does represent something some vandals are angry with. I think many young people feel that sculpture and fine art particularly is something elitist and 'high brow' that they can't connect with. They know it costs a lot of money, that rich people pay thousands, even millions for it, so it symbolises a culture that they don't feel a part of, worse; that they feel excluded from by education, economics or class. Art class in school is taught in a way that makes kids without 'natural ability' feel like a lost cause, so those who might possibly have found joy or appreciation of a work of art instead associate it with negativity, exclusion and even ridicule.

Just my view as an artist and a therapist, but a lot more could be done by artists and the educational establishment to help young people connect with art in a way that seems relevant to them. Maybe then they'd grow into adults with less animosity towards works of art that might otherwise have spoken to them.

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Posted by Laura Turley on 10/18/2015 at 2:24 PM

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