Tasha Jones is an Young Audience Artist in Both Indianapolis and Atlanta, why? The ARTs provide natural tools that demand social-emotional, linguistic, and cognitive growth. Having tactical and kinetic ART FORMS present ensure diversity and creativity. ART 4 YOUNG AUDIENCES help Developing Artist and/or introduce ART to persons who are wanting more from education, employ me to EDUTAIN our students critically through the ARTs:

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to have access to the arts and the participatory arts experiences that unlock minds, expand lives, and fulfill creative and intellectual potential. We work proactively with all stakeholders in a spirit of team work and collaboration so that the arts are a part of every child’s life and education.

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“NO MORE FLIES, HAWT!”, states Mark Curry, “Tasha Jones is the TRUTH, the first Poet that sold this LA crowd on Poetry, She ROCKED IT (STANDING O…in LA)! She’s A STAR!” ~ Mark Curry (host of FOXXHOLE Live!)

“Tasha Jones is the truth and they don’t even know yet, she’s going to kill the game!!” ~ Rodney Perry (comedian on Mon’Que Show)

Surviving in the illusion has been the reality of so many women across the world. We find ourselves lying to ourselves just to fit into the illusion. To be perceived as what we want to be and not what we are. Our natural ability to nurture others, some times cripple the healing process for ourselves ~ the love and affection we must show ourselves. My Mother use to say all the time to me as a child, “See yourself, Tasha,” weather it was said to help me visualize whatever I desired or if it was said help me be true to my values and motives, and/or not be so judgmental, it was said as a command pure untainted…See Yourself!

Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls, did just that, allowed women to view women, in ways that many had not or refused. For Color Girls helped women all across the world to see SELF through characters and dramatizations that could better help the viewer atone or want atonement. The poetic medium used as the healing instrument has definitely been my source of power. Poetry and Spoken Word has allowed many of us to heal from within and retrain the mind to achieve wholeness not only for those we nurture but essentially ourselves. Therewith the Hello Beautiful Movement, For Colored Girls Hello Beautiful! I AM Whole, I AM Love, We Are LOVED, I AM power, We Are Powerful, I AM forgiven, We allow ourselves to be forgiven, I AM ME ready and willing to be honest and open in LOVE!” View this powerful poem Vagina Monologue by poet laureate Tasha Jones …

“Jones’ work in public space works to provide an alternative cultural self object, image and message to survivors. By speaking the truth of sexual violation and encouraging women to write, write, “speak your truths”…she offers herself as a cultural selfobject with whom survivors can experience themselves as acknowledged, honored and emphatically cared about. In this way, Jones’ work engages the sociological, and psychological dimensions of women’s healing needs. Her willingness to speak, write, see, show, and hear incarnates God’s concern for the wounded to be holistically healed through communal interactions…allows women to receive unobstructed views of images and messages that holistically empower them in the fullness of their embodiment, and find courage to use their own voice to become agents in their own sacred healing. Jones picks up where Ntozake Shange left off when she wrote For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is not Enuf”
~Dr. Stephanie Crumpton

I enjoyed yesterday’s story very much. It inspired me to tell you about an incredible woman in Indianapolis. Her name is Tasha Jones. She is a poet, artist, educator and founder of the Hello Beautiful movement. Hello Beautiful started in Ms. Jones’ public school classroom where she was the 14th teacher the class had in ONE school year. All of their other teachers gave up on them, but not Tasha Jones. On the first day, Tasha Jones heard the students having a discussion about who was the blackest. This startled her so much that she had them write down all the bad things they had heard about themselves on one side of a paper. On the other side, she had them write the good things. Then Ms. Jones had the students write what they wanted to become. From that day forward the students greeted each other with “Hello Beautiful” and addressed each other as though they were already what they wanted to become. “Hello Beautiful, how is attorney Darnell Jackson today?” “What was your question Dr. Shanequa Smith?” This simple act of language changed the dynamic of the entire classroom and EVERY student passed to the next grade.

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