"Hundreds of writers, thousands of stories, millions of readers, countless artists uplifted. None of it would be here without a singular person: Barry Johnson. It's like the iconic "number song" in the musical Rent, "Seasons of Love," and its famous opening line, "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes," which quantifies a year. The song asks: "How do you measure a year?" For ArtsWatch, multiply that by 15, its milestone anniversary next year. How do you measure 15 years?"
"Barry founded ArtsWatch with a little help from his friends, but he did the heavy lifting. He heroically built a team of talented writers and started building the infrastructure to support it: establishing the website, applying for nonprofit status, activating an email system, soliciting funds, and writing checks. He did a zillion tasks and he never asked for a penny for himself. Why?"
Barry Johnson founded ArtsWatch and built its infrastructure, recruiting writers, creating a website, securing nonprofit status, activating communications, soliciting funds, and managing finances without personal payment. ArtsWatch aims to be a space to consider deep human and societal problems and joys, to wonder, laugh, and celebrate together. The mission emphasizes arts creating shared language, experiences, and shared values, including respect for differing deeply held values. The arts are framed as a force that reminds people they are not alone, can make things whole briefly, and that individuals and groups can achieve great things together. The organization approaches its fifteenth year with measurable legacy.
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