Comments on: The end of Georgia Council for the Arts? http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2010/04/the-end-of-georgia-council-for-the-arts/ ATL rocks Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:47:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Teresa Tomlinson http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2010/04/the-end-of-georgia-council-for-the-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 Teresa Tomlinson Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:06:51 +0000 http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/?p=4185#comment-1686 Are you kidding? I can't begin to think what life would be like in a world without art. I think everyone thinks of art at finger painting (which is great) but what they're forgetting is that art uses all of the other subjects as well: math, history, language, science, problem solving etc. How can you possibly stop funding something where people are learning and applying knowledge and ENJOYING it! And the enjoyment doesn't stop at creating art--if it did no one would ever go to all the amazing museums in the world! How much would we know about the Ancient Egyptians if they never created art in the form of all their jewelry and tomb paintings? And what would we put in the Cairo museum if they hadn't created it? I sincerely hope that this does not get approved; the loss of art funding would be a serious misstep on Georgia's part, and sad comment on how this state operates. Are you kidding? I can’t begin to think what life would be like in a world without art. I think everyone thinks of art at finger painting (which is great) but what they’re forgetting is that art uses all of the other subjects as well: math, history, language, science, problem solving etc. How can you possibly stop funding something where people are learning and applying knowledge and ENJOYING it! And the enjoyment doesn’t stop at creating art–if it did no one would ever go to all the amazing museums in the world! How much would we know about the Ancient Egyptians if they never created art in the form of all their jewelry and tomb paintings? And what would we put in the Cairo museum if they hadn’t created it?
I sincerely hope that this does not get approved; the loss of art funding would be a serious misstep on Georgia’s part, and sad comment on how this state operates.

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