{"id":2479,"date":"2015-03-20T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:59:43","slug":"arts-culture-a-gateway-to-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2015\/03\/arts-culture-a-gateway-to-civic-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Talking About Art as an Abstract Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we&#8217;re talking to friends or strangers,\u00a0how do we talk about the value we create?\u00a0Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director of the International Festival for Arts &amp; Ideas, shares why she believes we should stop talking about &#8220;the value of the arts&#8221; and start talking about the experience of arts and culture as a gateway to civic engagement and participation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the role of arts and culture in society?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_S6kgrofto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ctt.ec\/W17j3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/img\/tweet-graphic-trans.png\" alt=\"Tweet: Curious what you think about this. #NASadvocacy\" \/><\/a><em>Advocate for the Arts!<\/em><br \/>\nClick on the Twitter logo to share this with someone outside the arts. Start a conversation.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we&#8217;re talking to friends or strangers,\u00a0how do we talk about the value we create?\u00a0Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director of the International Festival for Arts &amp; Ideas, shares why she believes we should stop talking about &#8220;the value of the arts&#8221; and start talking about the experience of arts and culture as a gateway to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[517,28,23],"tags":[53,472,530,529,528,527],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-2479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-advocacy-day","8":"category-conversation","9":"category-stories-from-the-field","10":"tag-advocacy","11":"tag-arts-advocacy-day","12":"tag-civic-engagement","13":"tag-gateways","14":"tag-international-festival-for-arts-ideas","15":"tag-mary-lou-aleskie","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}