Catalog ID:
OH-0085
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Photographer and ceramics maker Richard Stamats discusses his work as an instructor at the Bridgeport Cultural Arts Center, a community learning center dedicated to offering children and adults instruction in a variety of artistic media such as painting and drawing, photography, music, dance, sculpture, writing and much more. A.B.C.D (Action for Bridgeport Community Development) spearheaded the formation of the Center and procured funding for its programs.
Stamats covers his own education and skills as an artist and photographer and his early love of working with young people. He started at the Arts Center early on and comments on the Center's move to the Gary Crooks Center on the city's West End as well as the need for budgeting and procuring supplies. Stamats provides details on different Center administrators and instructors and the roles they played. Above all, he relates the vital role that the arts play in our lives and the impact involvement in the creative process can have on a population.
The Arts Center served as an important vehicle for self- expression and learning in the Bridgeport community and mirrored trends in the Black Arts movement taking place on a national level.
Stamats covers his own education and skills as an artist and photographer and his early love of working with young people. He started at the Arts Center early on and comments on the Center's move to the Gary Crooks Center on the city's West End as well as the need for budgeting and procuring supplies. Stamats provides details on different Center administrators and instructors and the roles they played. Above all, he relates the vital role that the arts play in our lives and the impact involvement in the creative process can have on a population.
The Arts Center served as an important vehicle for self- expression and learning in the Bridgeport community and mirrored trends in the Black Arts movement taking place on a national level.
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Stamats, Richard
Stamats, Richard