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expression, an expression which may seem to embody the essential uniqueness of all truly creative endeavors. 

There is no intention here to offer specific guidelines or methods of procedure, in the conduct of a program in art for the culturally deprived. This would be pretentious and an affront to the highly qualified persons who will implement and carry through the program. They are the ones who will do the day-to-day job. Their strategy, principles and practices should and will be their own. 

I only offer my views and the benefit, for whatever it is worth, of my many years of teaching young people who were both privleged and deprived. As a member of a minority group (Negro) and as one whose earliest youth experiences were (and, in a sense still are) characterized by various forms of cultural deprivation, I submit these statements which derive from those experiences of teaching and living. 

The following points are offered as worthy of emphasis and consideration in the conduct of a program in art for the culturally deprived. They are thought of as valid for any ethnic group whether Negro, Oriental, Mexican (Indian) or whatever. They also hold true for the s0-called majority group since they are based broadly on the human expression, through art, of one's reactions to experience, to life and ideas. 

The points are sub-titled:
"Suggestions for the Conduct of a Program in Art for the Culturally Deprived". 

1. Structure in Art
Concern for and involvement in structure in art should emanate from the idea or experience to be expressed according to the personal aims and intent of the young artist-creator. The idea or experience may or may not derive from the immediate environment or peculiar nature of the sub-culture world of the culturally deprived youth. It is through relating and ordering the elements of color, space, value, line, movement, etc., (whatever the medium of expression used) that the expression is established or structured. 

2. Art leads to a Self Image
The youth who creates in art extends and enlarges his horizons of vision and interpretation. He thus obtains a new dimension of himself, thereby achieving a new value of his own being and of his own dignity and integrity and worth.