The Healing Arts
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Thank you for the article by Diane Haithman. I am a mask assemblage artist and hold an L.A. Arts Recovery Grant to work with students in the Crenshaw District. If I did not have the opportunity that this funding has given me, these students would not be able to express the uprising the way they experienced it.
Art is a fun and creative process. I believe that giving my students permission to feel their feelings and what they saw is an important part of the healing process.
I do not agree with writer-artist Harry Gamboa (who, Haithman reports, likens the grant procedure “to decorating a ticking time bomb”). As a substitute teacher working in South-Central for 3 1/2 years, I feel that we need more programs like this one.
BETH BACHENHEIMER
Los Angeles
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