The Thriving Artist Podcast

James is founder and president of the National School Art Collective, a non-profit created to develop student curated and student owned fine art collections in high schools. He has developed art collection and is looking to start another at Tippecanoe High School.The National School Art Collective:“One of the goals of the National School Art Collective is to bring an art experience to students in a school every day.”“A small group of students come together and run the program much like a museum curator would. They make the initial selections. They reach out to the artists. They put together the program to get the artists to submit just like they would for an art competition.”“Once the students have narrowed the submissions to a small number, they will put forth the artwork, the artist’s information to the entire student body, and then the student body will end up voting on it on one day. After that, the selections are made.”“When we talk about the funding aspect of it that’s where the National School Art