AKitchens on thu 16 may 02
With the thread always coming and going about teaching, I thought it was
appropriate to call attention to an ad that Target Corporation placed in
Time Magazine, April 22, 2002 (pg 4), even though it's an ad for
Target's fundraising for schools. (In my experience it's hard to see the
direct-to-student impact of these fundraising programs) The ad shows
Cheech Marin (Cheech and Chong fame) with his high school clay teacher,
Howard Tollefson, acknowledging Tollefson's skill and influence teaching
life lessons as well as art. (I didn't know Cheech was a potter :-) )
Leave the arts in schools, cut the sports budget once in a while, but
that's been discussed before.
Nan Kitchens
Tennessee and Key Largo
Learned more lessons from teaching my students than I probably taught
them......
David Hendley on fri 17 may 02
The REAL thinking behind Target's efforts:
Leave the arts in the schools so the market will be supplied with
innovative designs that we can steal and send to China, so
they can supply our stores with cheap knock-offs.
Sorry to be so cynical, I can't help it.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "AKitchens"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Target Co. Ad for art
> With the thread always coming and going about teaching, I thought it was
> appropriate to call attention to an ad that Target Corporation placed in
> Time Magazine, April 22, 2002 (pg 4), even though it's an ad for
> Target's fundraising for schools. (In my experience it's hard to see the
> direct-to-student impact of these fundraising programs) The ad shows
> Cheech Marin (Cheech and Chong fame) with his high school clay teacher,
> Howard Tollefson, acknowledging Tollefson's skill and influence teaching
> life lessons as well as art. (I didn't know Cheech was a potter :-) )
> Leave the arts in schools, cut the sports budget once in a while, but
> that's been discussed before.
> Nan Kitchens
> Tennessee and Key Largo
> Learned more lessons from teaching my students than I probably taught
> them......
>
Les Crimp on sat 18 may 02
David -
Does this include Wal-Mart? We are getting a bunch up here in the frozen
north" and they seem to be following the same pattern as Target.
Les Crimp on that Island in the Pacific.
lcrimp@shaw.ca
www.arrowsmithpottersguild.bc.ca
Tommy Humphries on sun 19 may 02
The sad thing about this is that the cheap knock offs are usually high
quality pieces...not crap. That is what makes them so attractive to
wholesale buyers and consumers alike.
Unless there are some major policy changes I cannot see any end to this
trend.
Tommy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hendley"
To:
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Target Co. Ad for art
> The REAL thinking behind Target's efforts:
> Leave the arts in the schools so the market will be supplied with
> innovative designs that we can steal and send to China, so
> they can supply our stores with cheap knock-offs.
> Sorry to be so cynical, I can't help it.
> David Hendley
> Maydelle, Texas
> hendley@tyler.net
> http://www.farmpots.com
>
>
>
Longtin, Jeff on mon 20 may 02
Not sure if the original thread is a slam on Target or not but for the
record:
Target was started years ago by a member of the Dayton family. Bruce Dayton
I do believe. (Dayton's department store has been a VERY major presence in
the Midwest for many, many years.)
Bruce Dayton has contributed art and artifacts to our two major museums, The
Minnaepolis Art Institute, and The Walker Art Center. (As in millions and
millions of dollars.) The Institue has had shows of Richard Bresnehans
wood-fired work and Dale Chihuly's glass work. A curator at the Institute,
Matthew Welch, recently wrote a book about Mr Bresnehan.
I'll even guess that the Northen Clay Center saw some money, at some point,
from the Daytons.
Yeah, Target is easy to slam for being a big corporate entity but the Dayton
family has been a MODEL corporate family.
Take care
Jeff Longtin
-----Original Message-----
From: David Hendley [mailto:hendley@TYLER.NET]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:08 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Target Co. Ad for art
The REAL thinking behind Target's efforts:
Leave the arts in the schools so the market will be supplied with
innovative designs that we can steal and send to China, so
they can supply our stores with cheap knock-offs.
Sorry to be so cynical, I can't help it.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "AKitchens"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Target Co. Ad for art
> With the thread always coming and going about teaching, I thought it was
> appropriate to call attention to an ad that Target Corporation placed in
> Time Magazine, April 22, 2002 (pg 4), even though it's an ad for
> Target's fundraising for schools. (In my experience it's hard to see the
> direct-to-student impact of these fundraising programs) The ad shows
> Cheech Marin (Cheech and Chong fame) with his high school clay teacher,
> Howard Tollefson, acknowledging Tollefson's skill and influence teaching
> life lessons as well as art. (I didn't know Cheech was a potter :-) )
> Leave the arts in schools, cut the sports budget once in a while, but
> that's been discussed before.
> Nan Kitchens
> Tennessee and Key Largo
> Learned more lessons from teaching my students than I probably taught
> them......
>
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