REMARKS
Council Member Holden shares his personal experience with arts education
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Council Member Holden shares his personal experience with arts education and how it shaped his life and career.
- He recounts how his high school art teacher recognized his talent and encouraged him to go to college.
- Holden describes how this encouragement led to his career blossoming in the arts.
- He emphasizes how arts can provide a sense of self-worth and offer new horizons.
- Holden draws parallels between his experience and the potential impact of arts on veterans, their families, and caregivers.
Robert Holden
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And when you think that, you know, obviously, when you go through the arts, and I've I've done that as a graphic designer and as a arts, major in in, in in not only high school, but in in college and beyond, that it's, it really saved me as a person, the arts, because I felt, in my junior in my junior year in high school, my arts teacher said, you know, you have a talent, and you should go to college.
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And I wasn't planning to go to college for, you know, for any area.
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But I he told me, he said, you have something in the arts.
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And that my career blossomed from there.
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And, and it can save you.
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It can make you, obviously, feel self worth, that you have something to offer.
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And like I said, you become part of a community, and make new friends and so forth and have new horizons.
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So I I can't understand how important it is to explore the arts that can uplift veterans, their families, and caregivers.
