Today’s blog is the first of a series based on thoughts that came out of the terrific “Art, City, and Society” Forum, hosted last weekend by New City Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, VA.
If you’ve read very many of my posts, you know that I closely follow arts policy – the area of arts practice that looks at how communities, institutions, and governments engage with and support the arts through funding, educational initiatives, community development projects, and other programs. So I was particularly excited to see that one of the sessions at the Forum would have guest speakers from the arts policy world, addressing the question “Why do the arts matter?”
You’d think we would have answered that question, many times over, right? So why ask it again at the Forum? Why would policy people, in particular, be asked to tackle it? And why do I keep asking it on the pages of this website? Continue reading
