I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
St. LuciaThe music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
St. LuciaUnfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
St. LuciaI find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation.
St. LuciaOf course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.
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