I believe arts education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most creative ways we have to find the gold that is buried just beneath the surface. They (children) have an enthusiasm for life a spark of creativity, and vivid imaginations that need training – training that prepares them to become confident young men and women.

Richard W. Riley

Former US Secretary of Education

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts can lift us up.

Barbara Jordan

Former Texas Congresswoman

We need people who think with the creative side of their brains—people who have played in a band, who have painted…it enhances symbiotic thinking capabilities, not always thinking in the same paradigm, learning how to kick-start a new idea, or how to get a job done better, less expensively.

Annette Byrd

GlaxoSmithKline

In just 3 weeks of school, my child is loving the experience. Miss. Popp is amazing, inspiring her students to be better every day. My daughter says she wants to be a writer. Just this morning she told me she is having lots of ideas for her journal they keep at school. I love it!

Jessi

Parent

Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.

Sydney Gurewitz Clemens