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As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

I'd love to teach theatre arts.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'