Dana Foundation: Educators schooled by ‘guerilla artist,’ DreamWorks executive
“I was one the system failed,” self-styled “guerilla artist” and high-school dropout Keri Smith warned a crowd of teachers assembled May 5 at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum. “I was the rebel, the one who stayed in the back and snuck out for cigarettes.”
In high school, she explained, her classes, filled with teachers who focused on technical
skills and accurate landscapes, were stifling. So she couldn't wait to get home, where she could actually “create something.”
To read more about the Dana Foundation's “Arts, Creativity and Other Outrageous Ideas” go to:
http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=21760
In high school, she explained, her classes, filled with teachers who focused on technical
skills and accurate landscapes, were stifling. So she couldn't wait to get home, where she could actually “create something.”
To read more about the Dana Foundation's “Arts, Creativity and Other Outrageous Ideas” go to:
http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=21760
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