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Bill Irwin on hiring artists to work in schools

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Uploaded by on Feb 6, 2009

Award winning actor Bill Irwin talks about public employment of artists, and his experience working in schools under the CETA Act in the 1970s.

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  • artists are the greatest teachers. They make us feel and see. To use their abilities in this way is incredible!

  • It was his *public service* that was funded: he brought his own craft to a job that was quite worthy of public support. I'd rather use public funds to deploy the talented in educating young people and improving the quality of community life in this country than our bombs and soldiers to terrorize others.

  • I like the guy a lot as a performer. But beyond that he's just a big liberal that thinks the taxpayers should fund his craft and the craft of others instead of figuring out how to do it on their own like the rest of us.. I give him a "A" for his talent and "F" for his "I want someone else to foot the bill of learning my craft" lefty attitude.

  • @BlackCatNat  It's Mr. Noodle!

  • this guy did a fantastic job in CSI

  • Today, as kids are exposed to more and more TV, early, they learn "acceptable" behavior from the media moguls. They get fed messages from theater marketed as 'kid shows' that fitting in is the most important thing.

    By bringing artists into schools, before attitudes & preconceptions are firmed up, we have a chance to expand imaginations. There is so much about 'doing the work' that is not shown on TV. Reality shows where a life/building/body is changed in a 1/hr segment, are not reality at all!

  • I AM SO HAPPY to find a profesional mind speaking about this finally. maybe there is hope for me yet to have a place in society. Where are all the artists jobs?

    Thank you so much Bill. I comend you, hats off. I will follow!

  • He was great in POPEYE.

    He worked with Robin Williams twice that I know of.

    In POPEYE and in the DON"T WORRY BE HAPPY music video.

    That guy beside him in the first shot of the 1970s stuff looks like another one of the Sweethaven townsfolk in POPEYE.

  • I think that Bill just spoke out what I've thought for a long long time! Now I'm 17 and I grew up with Bill and he's my teachers since I can think! He just has this talent to influence people enormously AND to make them laugh! So I agree totally with everything he said!

  • I agree with Bill. But I think teaching artists need to be seen more as artists who teach, and less as clowns.

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