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Personal Leadership Statement

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Yunjing Huang
ACM465
Final Exam
Art leadership
Personal leadership statement
I want to connect more and more people through art and make efforts to deal with the issues of climate change and save the planet. I would try to get more people involved in art and have clear goals for the group so that one remains well organized, self-motivated and inspire each other every day to raise awareness on environmental issues.
Whatever we do, where ever we live, we are all connected to art in some way or the other. The buildings we live in, the books we read, the clothes we wear, all those aspects of our lives display the creative intelligence of humans. Art has always been part of humanity and evolved with it. As an arts leader, I feel responsible towards …show more content…

As an art leader. I personally believe strongly in what Georgia O'Keeffe, the famous artist said:” "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for" (eCognoscente). Thus, art is indeed a powerful tool of expression and communication with in the society. Barsdate (1) comments on National Opinion Research Center and their new study that reflects a decline in the arts in the school and how about 50% of adults do not get nay arts education in school. I feel that it is essential to emphasis on importance of art right from childhood. Is indeed motivating to learn about the power of art as Michele Obama says. She comments that those students who have been involved in arts always have higher grades and higher educational degree (Lewis …show more content…

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