Nurturing Art

categories: acceptance, art and music, community inclusion

Published June 02, 2009 @ 04:00PM PT

A local newspaper of Venice Beach (CA) published a story about an autistic man and the Venice Beach Art Walls. Apparently, like most people, the man has benefited from being included in his community and from doing things he likes (hopefully some day this sort of thing will happen all the time and no longer be news).

There didn't seem to be much more meat to write about from the story, but it made me really curious about what these "art walls" are, so I looked up the Venice Public Art Walls.

The Venice Public Art Walls are walls of graffiti. But while mainstream culture typically thinks of graffiti as ugly, offensive, frightening, and unwanted, the Venice Public Art Walls show another option. Beautiful, intricate, fascinating, and desirable, the graffiti of Venice Beach is art, not eyesore.

Sometimes things that initially seem unsightly to mainstream culture, if nurtured, could turn out to be wonderful. Like, just for example, a person's Special Interests...

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My special interest is Butterflies and moths. I reckon that can be helpful. I should learn how to breed them. Simply because the world always needs more butterflies.

Posted by Shondolyn (Synesthesia) Gibson on 06/02/2009 @ 06:15PM PT
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Dora is committed to improving quality of life for individuals on the autistic spectrum--including herself! She is Co-director of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education and a member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network's Board of Directors.