As Arts for Hope Camp ends, renowned artist talks about the great futures for those who attended . . . and says they now know someone from somplace else cares about them!
When the BuildaBridge team gathered here more than a week ago, we sang a chorus: I can do all the world needs, but the world needs all that I can do.
Since then the team has worked with about 40 children on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the Montana Arts for Hope Camp 2009. Volunteer artists came at their own expense, most of them from Philadelphia and Harrisburg, taught classes in dance, culinary artistry, acting, photography and mural painting. At the start of the week the students were quiet, extremely shy. By today the children were laughing and showing family and friends what they had done in just five days.
“If they can do this much in a short time, they have a great future,” said renowned Indian artist Corwin Clairmont, at the closing ceremony. “Arts not only create beautiful things. It is also an opportunity for things deep inside a person to come out and say hello.”
Mr. Clairmont said thanked the artists for coming and, speaking to the children, he said the camp has been an opportunity to “learn that good people from some place else care about you.”
