Artists in the Workforce

A respectable report on artist in the workforce is reported on by the National Endowment for the Arts.

http://www.arts.gov/news/news08/ArtistsinWorkforce.html


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Artists Confuse Census Bureau

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It sounds like the left brain trying to force the right brain into a box. Try googling 'characteristics of artist'. Here is another that is interesting. Artist was defined as an "Organism that presents art." Organism? http://books.google.com/books?id=cpc7CJH1-s8C&pg=RA2-PA119&lpg=RA2-PA119&dq=characteristics+of+artists&source=bl&ots=nJ6lAUxi8I&sig=rHhh4VkfDCAP6In38Pyzy8b7rYo&hl=en&ei=vWtKSqu

God...an Artist?

God is often referred to as the Father, but why do so many people call Him the Creator? Is God an artist? Being a part of this world is like living in a museum every day. It seems the Creator is constantly in His studio mixing colors, shaping, and sculpting. Every artist likes his art to be noticed. We always have a new painting hanging in the sky when we wake up. In this world there is always something beautiful, interesting, and unique to observe.

There are billions of people in the world, yet every single human being has their own distinct shape and color. Hands, eyes, feet, noses and other features of every single human seems to have been formed uniquely for them. The work of landscapers have really already been done. Landscapers are really workers in the museum of the world shifting art pieces around identifying what artwork looks best next to another. Witness the testament of autumn and spring or the songs of winter and summer. Make a point to visit a local botanical garden and observe a little more closely the intriguing creative quality of trees and mysterious beauty of flowers.

God the artist is really is in the full creative mode when He makes fish and things in the ocean. Have you seen just a piece of the coral reef or visited the local aquarium and witnessed the amazing shapes, colors, and patterns of things that live in the ocean? Kinetic sculpture is art that moves. The ocean is a beautifully choreographed song and dance of the kinetic art in the sea. Or what about animals? Whether at the zoo or on the Serengetti plains; observing animals are like going to another gallery in the museum. It is hard to ignore the grace of patterns, shapes and textures in animals.

We sit in the best art class everyday of our lives. All we have to do is use the gift of our own sight to what is really around us. If one refers to the Holy Scriptures, the very first scripture starts off with “In the beginning God created…” He was an artist in the studio before anything else. Art and creating are important to this world. Stop for a moment and imagine all this creativity gone and the world as a blank canvas of nothingness….. Or imagine you had no sight and were blind? Would creativity mean something then? Whether someone believes in God or not, anyone with sight can see there is no denying there is a great creative force among us or the importance of art in our world.

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