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Empathy in the Arts
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Empathy and Compassion in the Arts (Drawing, Writing, Stories, Poetry, Music, Dance, Fine Art, etc) - CultureOfEmpathy.com
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Edwin Rutsch
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Do you have a philosophy of why you think film criticism is important?
Film criticism is important because films are important. If films weren't important film criticism wouldn't matter so much. They are the art form of the 20th century. They are the most serious of the mass arts... They affect the way people think and feel and behave. They can be both a good influence on society and a negative influence, to the degree that they glorify, mindlessness and short attention spans, I think they are bad. To the degree that they encourage EMPATHY with people not like ourselves, and encourage us to think about life and issues, they can be good. 
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This week has seen me playing with my sewing machine. Week three of the Art, Heart & Healing class included making an empathy monster.
This little guy is so full of mistakes and flaws it's unbelievable but then aren't we all? I had such fun making him - I love him. He's arrived at his new home now so I can show him to you - I'm reliably informed his new name is Squishy!
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“I Remember Better When I Paint”, narrated by Olivia de Havilland, is the first international documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer’s and how these approaches can change the way we look at the disease.
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
May 5, 2011 4:15 PM
thanks for the link Becky, I don't know how to thank you more directly
Becky B's comment,
May 6, 2011 10:25 AM
Works for me! Thanks for accepting it, I thought it was a pretty good program.
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More than 10,000 Appleton art students are sharing their individual ideas of what compassion means through the Appleton Compassion Project, a wide-ranging initiative that aims to spur discussion in the community about compassion, encourage students to embrace compassion in their daily lives and possibly become a springboard for a first-of-its-kind classroom curriculum on teaching about compassion.
It's a massive undertaking by the Appleton Area School District, the Trout Museum of Art and the Appleton Education Foundation that's been in the works for more than a year and will be unveiled to the public beginning today. [includes video of the setup in the art gallery]
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If you had a blank canvas in front of you, how would you paint the word "compassion"? In this project, students have become the teachers. Here's something to think about: If you had a blank canvas in front of you, how would you paint the word "compassion"?
In Appleton, more than 10,000 students have taken on that task, and their work will soon be featured at the Trout Museum of Art. "We suggested to challenge our students and teachers in the community to visualize compassion and figure out what compassion might look like," museum executive director Tim Riley said.
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Empathy is like a cornucopia. For me, each person is a cornucopia of rich; experiences, thoughts, insights, emotions and feelings.
With empathy, I can experience, share, reflect and learn those qualities. In a Culture of Empathy, we all share each others cornucopia and wonderful bounty of the spirit. Without empathy, life would be impoverished. Drawing by Edwin Rutsch
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Empathy is when you wince for
the animal on the side of the road, and stop to feel the fading warmth. Empathy is when you pick the fruit and wonder what the branch felt, to give away so quickly what had been growing there. Empathy is when you feel someone else's tears leave your eyes, and you realize that the same river is running underneath all our faces, towards an ocean that has no name.
's comment May 15, 2011 12:40 AM
As an empath and a poet, I love this- because it is also true. We are all connected, and when we hurt another we hurt ourselves. What we do to others, it gives them permission to do the same to us.
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Dr. Richard Davidson toured the Trout Museum of Art on Tuesday, drinking in the spectacle of row upon row of 6-by-6-inch panels —more than 10,000 of them.
All had been contributed by Appleton school children for the Compassion Project, and on those tiles were the students' drawings and paintings of what compassion means to them. "Seeing these all together has a certain power in the aggregate," the neuroscientist, famous for his cutting-edge research on the effects of compassion, said as he scanned the mosaic-like exhibit. "It's very deeply moving to me. I just sat and paused and reflected that every single child of school age in Appleton took time to consider the importance of compassion and express it artistically.
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“Through art, participants were able to express positive feelings, externalize difficult emotions and gain insight into their PTSD symptoms,” Miller said.
“Artmaking fostered discussion and allowed veterans to show empathy for one another.”.. Group interaction was a major benefit of the study. “Through the process of creating and discussing art with peers, participants were able to open up and express important thoughts and emotions in an atmosphere of mutual support,” Miller said, noting groups appeared to be especially helpful in tackling issues of avoidance: loss of interest in pleasurable activities, feelings of detachment and a foreshortened sense of the future.
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
May 6, 2011 5:16 PM
nice to hear your interest in the project. are you working in the arts?
I'd like to do an art project like that on empathy I did some metaphor drawings of empathy with this class. http://cultureofempathy.com/Projects/Interviews/2010-03-16-Nonviolence-Today/ and here's a dance, art and inspiration video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7074343929213252763
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Dr. Gelo is the behavioral science coordinator for the Family Medicine residency program and the recipient of funding to establish a curriculum around religion, spirituality and medicine.
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“The Appleton Compassion Project” is a community art project involving 10,436 Appleton Area School District K-12 art students. In Fall 2010, participating students received a 6-inch-by-6-inch art panel to draw or paint their idea of compassion.
Picture Number 8979 Catherine Backer Compassion: A Domino Effect Compassion is selflessly putting forth your help and feelings toward another. In a world of grey, infiltrated by commercialism, money, and conflict, compassion offers illuminating color. Shining through the dull shell of the world, compassion brings us back to the way the world used to be: pure, simple and genuine. Each act of compassion makes a difference. Whether it be planting a tree, adopting a homeless pet or helping a person in need, one act of compassion inspires another. The last domino to fall is the world. We can change the world one act of compassion at a time.
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Sympathy Painting by Briton Riviere - Sympathy Fine
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A moment’s kind glance
Can whisk away A life-time’s sorrow. A second’s sweet smile Can wash away A life-time’s tears. A minute’s soft utterance Can wipe away A life-time’s suffering.
's comment May 8, 2011 2:11 AM
Very touching, truly reflective
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Commissioned by the U.S. Army War College, Class of 1996. Not a shot was fired for over 90 minutes when Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland leapt the wall at Marye's Heights at Fredricksburg, VA to provide a moment of relief from the savagery of war to his fallen enemies.
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A new study provides the first evidence that consolation in primates, such as hugging and stroking, can reduce stress levels after a fight.
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