A Little Bit of Carnegie
I had the best day today. Weeks ago, I had told a friend about this charity (Fed Artist) and how I also teach every year at The Ghetto Film School in the Bronx. GFS is an incredible organization. I taught a lighting seminar there about a month ago and asked the founder, Joe Hall, if there was an art reference library for the students. He said he was too bogged with other needs for the students to address that yet. And I had such an “a-ha!!!”. I could send an email to all of my friends to donate art books.
A few days later, I mentioned this idea to a friend and he asked if I knew about the Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC). Essentially they offer loads of art books to libraries in under-served and under-represented communities. I emailed them today and, even though the Ghetto School is not a library, they allowed me to order books for them.
I ordered about 15 art books. After I filled out the form, I thought, “you just started a library…like Carnegie”. I could not be happier. Really.







