Art can save the world.

Our one-sided education with the emphasis on knowledge has neglected those attributes of growth which are responsible for the development of the individual's sensibilities, for his spiritual life, as well as for his ability to live cooperatively in a society. The growing number of emotional and mental illnesses in this nation, the largest in any nation, as well as our inability to accept human beings first of all as human beings regardless of nationality, religion, race, creed or color, is a frightening sign and vividly points out that education so far has failed in one of its significant aims.... Art Education, introduced in the early years of childhood may well mean the difference between a flexible creative human being and one who, in spite of all learning, will not be able to apply it and will remain an individual who lacks inner resources and has difficulty in his relationship to the environment.
-Viktor Lowenfeld, 1957

I won something, again.

Mr. Burns took home the John Weinkein Memorial Award #4 at the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 125-Mile Fine Art Exhibition on July 9 in Denton, TX. It's the equivalent of 17th place out of 40, but I got some chalk pastels out of the deal, so I am happy. :)