art is essential
I base my whole career on this premise. Here is a collection of reasons why.
art is essential
The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Bringing people together: Almost without exception, the projects studied have made a significant contribution to bringing people together. At a simple level, more than nine out of ten respondents made new friends as a result of their involvement. This is such an ordinary outcome of participating in the arts that it can easily be underestimated:
... See moreFrançois Matarasso • Use or ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
The public money has dried up, in other words, but so has a whole lot of the private money. You might not have noticed the ramifications quite yet, but you will. It’s in the increasingly ardent pleas from your local NPR station, of course, but it’s also just absence: the film festival or day camp or curated exhibition or concert series that just... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • No Really, How Do We Fund the Art We Care About *Right Now*?
Terrence McNally says it best, via Tateh, “Without art, what is our existence but chaos?”
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HOW COME FROM AWAY CAME HOME
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an provide a major economic boost for a town
The Paradox of Art as Work (Published 2014)
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If the work artists do is "unserious", then I'd like to be able to wave a magic wand and eliminate any and all things visual, aural, written, etc. that have been created by artists throughout the centuries and see what would be left. How many buildings would be missing? How many sounds? What would the world actually look and sound like without the... See more
"The Paradox of Art as Work" — Jane Alden Stevens
We need temples. We need holidays. We need moments that are offering us a chance to step out of the daily pressures. And the reality that life has a lot of pain and a lot of stress along with its many joys. So being able to have a space where we can truly sort of experience the freedom to be our full human self outside of those immediate daily... See more
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Lear deBessonet on Stagecraft podcast
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