Hands On ESSA

While there were hands off rallies across the US and we attended one, we also went to Hands On ESSA https://essa-art.org/events/hands-on-essa/ where I made a small paper pouch for my granddaughter from a paper toilet roll. It was a cute project and one designed better to get people making things than a whole world wall of tariffs. 

People were busy making things and learning things, welding and soldering and forging included and if one were to hope for a return of manufacture and creativity to the US and the lessening of imported things, the Eureka Springs School of the Arts has a better, and more positive path for our nation to follow. Tariffs force disruption. But introducing people to the creative capacities of their own hands and minds does as well, in a positive way. People are proud of the things they have made and have learned. Tariffs do not have such positive effects.

I sat and worked next to a friend who had never had confidence to take a class before, but will now. And to see an organization I helped to found having such an effect on the lives of so many, has it effect on me as well.

Make, fix and create...