Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. - Article 27, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations General Assembly, 1948) Across centuries, individuals from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds have employed creativity, imagination, … [Read more...] about Hypothesis: Arts Education Access Is a Human Rights Issue
Quick Study: The Arts in Social Prescribing
In this episode, we discuss the phenomenon of social prescribing of the arts, its traction in the UK, and growing interest among arts/health researchers and practitioners. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: The Arts in Social Prescribing
Taking a Page from Baldwin: Book-Reading as a Violence Coping and Prevention Strategy
In 1963, James Baldwin told a LIFE magazine reporter: “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected to me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open … [Read more...] about Taking a Page from Baldwin: Book-Reading as a Violence Coping and Prevention Strategy
Quick Study: Some Stats on Book-Reading
In this episode, we take stock of recent studies about book-reading through print and digital media, and how patterns may have changed during the pandemic. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Some Stats on Book-Reading
An Untapped Energy Source: Colleges and Universities as Cultural Anchors
Think of an anchor and you’re sure to picture a clunky steel appendage that grounds a vessel to a halt, or, in tattoo ink, graces Popeye’s forearms. Think of an “anchor institution” and you might construct an image just as leaden or, alternatively, cartoonish. By most definitions, community anchors are large and immobile, even if they typically are nonprofits with a social … [Read more...] about An Untapped Energy Source: Colleges and Universities as Cultural Anchors