The good folks at Americans for the Arts are diving into a strategic planning process, and scanning the environment to see how and where they can focus their energy in the coming years. As part of that scan, they’ve launched an on-line survey to gather insight and input from a wide range of constituents.
Lend them a hand by sending your thoughts.
The arts and artists have to remember that the arts play a vital role in defining a culture and providing a safe place to work out difficult issues before they are worked out in the streets. Our arts have relegated themselves to the person, the post modern. Identity is a function of story and it’s the artist job to remind a community of it’s essence, the who and the why.
Thanks!