{"id":1117,"date":"2011-01-25T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-01-26T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:52:51","slug":"1117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/01\/25\/1117\/","title":{"rendered":"A rich encounter with the arts has three parts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1146\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2011\/01\/120px-Sasamon_Burgos_Arquivolta_61.jpg\" alt=\"120px-Sasamon_Burgos_Arquivolta_6\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our mission at Boston University is to make the arts relevant to every student.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University cannot do it alone.\u00a0 This effort must be a collaboration involving students.\u00a0 To have a genuine encounter with the arts, students must commit to a threefold experience:<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>&#8211;First, do it.<\/strong> <\/strong>Draw, paint, sing, act, dance, play a musical instrument. Find out how hard it is; how joyous, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>&#8211;Second, know something about the context<\/strong><\/strong> in which a particular art work was created.\u00a0 Who was Beethoven, the man?\u00a0 What were the times like when Bach composed?\u00a0 This will add crucial richness to the experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<strong>Finally<\/strong>, and most importantly,<strong><strong> <em>enjoy the arts.<\/em> <\/strong><\/strong>Attend productions, exhibitions, recitals.<strong> <\/strong>Learn something about the artist and his\/her work before you go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunities here are nearly limitless but you must make a commitment.\u00a0This is different from some forms of popular culture that make few demands on you.<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;doing&#8221; art, learning about it, and enjoying it, our students can move from the merely curious, to the interested, all the way to becoming active participants and passionate arts advocates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission at Boston University is to make the arts relevant to every student. The University cannot do it alone.\u00a0 This effort must be a collaboration involving students.\u00a0 To have a genuine encounter with the arts, students must commit to a threefold experience: &#8211;First, do it. Draw, paint, sing, act, dance, play a musical instrument. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}