To begin with my major is English and my minor is Psychology. But, besides the obvious, I am also extremely interested in art. Unfortunately I could not minor in photography at my school, or even communications for that matter, thus I am stuck with psyc. Though, I have found that art and any class can really go hand in hand.

English and art are two things that I am very passionate about, along with funny cat pictures but that is besides the point. I have noticed in the years since I was in high school till now the fine art programs of many school have seemed to slowly deteriorate, usually to a lack of funding. Essential I will be exploring the loss of many art programs in schools and how this may be effecting students. Being that fine art includes theater and theater, or drama classes, tend to fall under English, I could possibly be subject to this plight of eliminating classes and programs. I believe that fine art programs are extremely important for students because they give students options and other ways to express themselves. Hopefully I’ll find that fine art programs maybe aren’t as bad as I think they are

I subscribed to a number of feeds. The first few are from the New York Times. I subscribed to both the art and design feed and the education one. I believe these are fairly explanatory  for why I chose them. Also, at CNN I subscribed to the education feed. One of the blogs that I subscribed to is called Change Agency. It is a blog that focuses on technology and education. I found this relevant because I know that a lot of fine art programs find themselves having had to abandon the classical way of doing thing to a more technological way because it is cheaper, and in reality more realistic. I saw this happen with my schools photography program. They had to switch to mostly digital photography rather than dark room photography because they no longer had the funds to support a darkroom based class. One of my search query’s is art and education.