TC#1: Artists make marks, drawing our attention

TC#2: Art communicates, in every sense

TC#3: Art has its own vocabulary, shaped across time and space

TC#4: Artists use (and abuse) traditions

TC#5: Artists play - with materials, ideas and failure

TC#6: Art engages; head, hands, heart

TC#7: Art is not fixed in meaning; context is everything

TC#8: Art has value, in unequal measures

TC#9: Art makes people powerful, for good and bad