Here’s a cool career path I didn’t know existed: director of arts and cultural affairs for an airport.
According to the New York Times, Yolanda Sanchez, who holds this title at Miami International Airport, is in the vanguard of a movement to make air travel a lot less stressful and at least a little edifying. She’s making things happen:
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Among the current offerings are a mural by local children, ironworks from Haiti and a show of 24 large-scale photographs by recent participants in the Everglades Park Service’s artist-in-residence program.
Ms. Sanchez said a 4,400-square-foot sculpture garden was planned for the new North Terminal.
In fact, I wandered down a corridor hung with student paintings in the Miami airport when I traveled back from Guatemala last December. I had a three-hour layover; it cheered me up.
Hope to see more of this closer to home. DCA, I’m looking at you.
Photo by Photo Phiend via Flickr/Creative Commons.
