Please join us on Monday, August 28th at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Kirk Charlton about his new book Art Inside Out. Art Inside Out is a twelve-lesson, self-directed art program with insights for a positive life. The original AIO consisted of in-person classes and has been used extensively in the Oregon State Correctional Institute as
The family book compares raising the seed of wheat with nurturing and loving a baby
You could say the seed was planted for his book The Baby and the Seed many years ago when Dr. Leland Bud Beamer was a young student at Cornell College in Iowa. I had a female professor who was really big on why we become who we are, he recalls. They didn t have all this scientific knowledge then, but they knew that a good beginning made a big difference.
He wrote a paper on the topic for the class, which became required reading. Something turned me on as far as a passion. The seed was there, Beamer said. You assume a child at that age isn t going to remember anything, so does it really make a difference what goes on if they re not going to remember it?