Art 4 All

Mr. Alonge has seen it all in his 20 plus years of being an educator in many different settings. His path towards writing this book was not deliberate but instead, experiential. He says that the book came to him and all he had to do was write it down. He says, "He was just being obedient". Mr. Alonge feels the same way about art-that it is also experiential, in that it must keep flowing "to us" and "through us" and if we allow these first two things, it will then come "out" of us. He believes it is not so much the job of educators and government to "teach" art but he does feel that society has the responsibility to make sure that art is "available" and "accessible" to all. He sees that this is not the case in America and will hope to site in this book; how this greatly affects individuals and our society as a whole. If art is truly "inherent" in every person, like Mr. Alonge will make claims, then Picasso's words cannot be any truer, "Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows."