Kids, a Car and an Art Teacher
The Art Car may be something of a niche market in the big, wide world of art, but to its adherents it really means something. To many people, art cars are a novelty, maybe a one-time curiousity they’ve seen but only given a passing notice to. Art is art because it creates a reaction, and because people want to look at it. And because of the input from many different peopl, it is arguably even better when people come together to create art, as not only does something get created, but some consensus is reached.
Young people in urban areas today face many tough and dangerous issues that threaten to (and often do) rob them of their education, health and even their life. Too many kids grow up to be in trouble, and too many don’t get the chance to grow up at all. In 1991, a teacher called Rebecca Bass was teaching in a downtown Middle School by the name of Edison Middle, with many of the kids under her tutelage seemingly at risk of falling into that futile pattern which had claimed so many before them.
So Miss Bass put a plan into action. Her junior high students would work together to create an art car, to be entered in Houston’s annual parade. At the beginning the interest was slight, but it grew steadily as the project progressed. In a fairytale story, when the Parade came along and the time for prizes was at hand, they took first prize in the whole parade and repeated the achievement the next year. Now, gangs still exist in Houston’s Second Ward and kids from Edison still end up in them – but less so, thanks to Rebecca Bass.
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