5 reasons why art education is failing in our schools and universities.

News Type: Event — Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:10 PM EDT ou may or may not be aware of the decline in art education in the last 70 years. If you are unaware, believe me it's been in a steady decline. I have the pleasure of working with Larry Gluck, Founder of Mission: Renaissance, the world's largest fine art program, who has himself been in the fine arts for quite some time. From apprenticing with Picaso's old class mate portrait master Giuseppe Trotta, to graduating from the Pratt Institute, to producing and selling over 3,000 of his works of art, to creating his unique method of instruction - The Gluck Method - which is currently being taught to more than 3,000 students every week at Mission: Renaissance studios in California and Canada. Point being, Larry knows art. We see the results of the decline of our Nation's art education... [read full story]