
More than sixty activist artists, community artists, and creative organizers took part in a conversation with the White House.
The public dialogue on the arts and our national economic and cultural recovery is one in which all of us should and can have a voice. Some of our most thoughtful cultural leaders have been bringing this public dialogue directly to the White House. The exchanges there and elsewhere have fermented the drafting of new frameworks document for the arts in the context of what is being called “The Public Purpose”. The document is authored first to last by a brave contingent of artists and cultural leaders committed to the arts and the potency of their survival their value to all of us in a democracy.