Survival skills: art and video installations at the Fort Douglas theatre

This thesis reflects the six pieces developed as resident artist at a Salt Lake City inner-city elementary school. They cover a broad spectrum which include empathy, awareness, devotion, wonderment and transformation. Evidently the creative process is imperative to producing higher-order thinking skills, as well as multiple ways of knowing and exploring life's joys, tragedies and fantasies. To do this there must be high quality, rich and thorough arts education programs in the community and in the schools. That was my goal.