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1. Community art has always resisted the idea that artistic excellence is a zero-sum game, that there is only one way of making great art, and that the achievement of some makes the work of others insignificant. It's a Trumpian view that divides people into winners and losers …/
2. It's not just oppressive, it's false. The supply of artistic excellence is not limited, and moving the benchmark doesn't make it so. Why not? Because our ideas of art and what we seek from it are fluid, personal and continually changing …/ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/08/twyla-tharp-some-of-the-greatest-dancers-are-amateurs
3. As Twyla Tharp says, artists are not in competition with each other (at least not when they're thinking about art). They are in competition with themselves, always reaching for the best work they're capable of …/
4. Discovering what you can imagine, create and share is part of life's meaning and it's a path that all can take and where all can excel. Community art – for me anyway – is founded on that belief and recognition that access to that path is often unjustly barred …/
5. I've never worked with anyone who didn't aspire to create excellence, but I have worked with many artists – professional and non-professional – who did not know what they were capable of achieving. Community art is one of the ways that gets changed. END.
