Viewpoint: Art is helping us all through the Covid-19 crisis. Doesn’t it deserve more funding?

On April 7, the education staff of the Modell Lyric held our first virtual theater workshop with 5th-grade students from Henderson Hopkins Partnership School. It had been a month since our last typical Tuesday workshop and they displayed their thirst for our theater arts curriculum. It was beautiful to see students’ energetic, bright faces as they eagerly jumped into their improvisational scenes. At the end of the session they pleaded with us to give them more time before the workshop ended. During…