Catalog ID:
OH-0089
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Scope & Content:
Grant discusses his participation in 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.
Grant spent a great deal of time at the Arts Center as a youth because his mother, Pattie, was an instructor there. He remembers many of the instructors and other students very fondly. He had personal relationships with many of the instructors because his mother socialized with them. In his own career in social work, Grant has used the arts as a vital form of therapy -- a process inspired from what he learned during his days at the arts center.
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.
Grant spent a great deal of time at the Arts Center as a youth because his mother, Pattie, was an instructor there. He remembers many of the instructors and other students very fondly. He had personal relationships with many of the instructors because his mother socialized with them. In his own career in social work, Grant has used the arts as a vital form of therapy -- a process inspired from what he learned during his days at the arts center.
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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Grant, Ryan
Grant, Ryan