I’ll be consumed today and this weekend with an alumni/student conference at the Center I direct. Called ‘What’s it Worth?’ the event will work to ‘honestly explore the value of arts and culture to people, places, and the public purpose.’
I’m hoping that ‘honestly’ will be the key word, since so many public discussions of the value of art seem to play to the funding audience…aka, it’s all good news, art does everything better than anything else, and we are traitors to question the underlying assumptions behind the math.
Perhaps something will come of our conversation, perhaps not. But I’m a sucker for conversations, so I’ll be in academic nirvana either way. More later…
