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IDEAS

Inspiring Ideas about Arts in America

Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together (With Art)

 Here at 4A Arts, we frequently emphasize the way art strengthens communities. It creates ties that bind, helps people push past vulnerabilities, cures loneliness, helps us demonstrate self-expression, dismantles facades, and (some might say most importantly)...

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A New Approach to Arts Advocacy

Here at 4A Arts, we count ourselves very lucky to be part of a vast ecosystem of arts, culture, design, and craft; an ecosystem that includes artists, teachers, and advocates across the country. But we also know that not everyone shares our values. After decades of...

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Arts Advocacy in the Age of AI: Change Is Coming

Advocates for arts and culture have gradually become more comfortable and more knowledgeable in discussing the potential future effects of artificial intelligence on the creative industries. But our contributions to the field have largely been focused on issues of...

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Organizing for the Arts (O4A)

4A Arts is excited to announce... its new grassroots arts advocacy organizing initiative called “Organizing for the Arts” (O4A). Launched in the winter of 2024, O4A seeks to build out vast teams of citizens to support the efforts of state arts advocacy organizations...

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Taylor Swift for President

If you do not have a tween in your household, don’t sport a friendship bracelet or, well…just don’t care, you might have missed that Taylor Swift has added another 16 songs to her musical canon with her album that dropped last night at midnight, “Tortured Poets...

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the cure for loneliness…Art

 I was recently elected to my local Board of Education, and in the process, was inspired to think about the cure for loneliness. I’m honored to be a public steward and contribute to my community. While many people told me the odds were in my favor (I’m a Democrat in a...

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