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Community Conversations: Shifiting the Cultural Landscape

By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO What happens when a message doesn’t matter?  When all your marketing, promotions and campaigns just don’t work.  When the only thing that really matters is to take action, set things in motion, create chaos and watch what happens.This is what artists experience, encounter and explore everyday.  The creative process  brings together our  intentions and initiative in order to make change happen.  It’s not about what you talk about; it’s not even what you think about; it’s only about

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Community Conversations: Shifting the Cultural Landscape

By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO But I’m not creative.I don’t have a creative bone in my body.I can’t even draw a straight line.These statements are commonly overheard the moment we propose an art (creative) activity.  Whether it be signing up for an art class or just sitting in a meeting and being asking to think “outside of the box”, these apprehensive statements reflect a larger social context beyond the  “fear of the unknown”. It points to how people perceive the truth about what is

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