Rethinking Arts Education with “Ser Feliz Creciendo Feliz” This past pandemic year has proven to be a challenge for everyone, a globally shared experience of uncertainty, isolation, fear, and exasperation. At the same time history shows that pandemics breed innovation and social changes that were not previously imagined. The 1918 pandemic helped to bring about the popularization of socialized medicine in Europe, stoked the embers of independence movements in colonized nations