This month we are pleased to feature a guest blog from Gordon Yamate, who is coordinating a series of community-based, participatory art events across the Town of Los Gatos called Handwriting the Constitution. SVCREATES is proud to be a fiscal sponsor of this civically engaged art project.
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When I interviewed for the Town of Los Gatos Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Commission, I told the Town Council that I often look to artists and the way they think to solve problems. Later, that approach would inform the Commission’s work, given its lack of funding and limited staff resources, and no independent authority (we act only to advise the Town Council). When the Commission began grappling with how to unify the community under the DEI umbrella, the artist mindset proved extremely helpful—artists often work under conditions of funding scarcity, but are incredibly resourceful in using their creativity to create art and solve problems.