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Recommendations for live musician base pay presented by new study
4A Arts is thrilled to announce the release of a study with recommendations for suggested baseline and graduated payments for live music performances.
Schrodinger’s AI: Is Art Dead?
But are we asking the right questions, and measuring the most important aspects of an artist’s life? Or can we envision a future where AI frees us all to be more creative, more expressive, and more human?
Within a Forest Dark: Art’s Journey into AI
It’s clear that there is a popular thread of argument that claims that AI-generated art is fundamentally different in some tangible and identifiable way from that created by humans.
And yet, science would tell us otherwise.
American Art vs. AI – How to Win the First Battle
4A Arts exists to change the narrative around arts and culture in the United States, particularly in this age facing an art vs. AI showdown. We believe art is for everyone, everyone is an artist, and American art creates American identity. We aim to lift up the work...
It’s 2023 – Time for a United States Secretary of Arts and Culture
In September of 2022, President Biden announced his reinstatement of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), an advisory committee focused on cultural issues, led by Executive Director Tsione Wolde-Michael, formerly the Director of the Center...
Welcome to the President’s Council on the Arts and the Humanities
We at 4A Arts congratulate President Biden for his reinstitution of the President’s Council on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH). President Biden appointed luminaries of culture to the committee in an effort to represent the depth and breadth of American arts and...
Anti-Trans Legislation Is Cultural Genocide
And America Is Lesser for It Here at 4A Arts, we believe that arts and culture are basic human rights as well as vital components of an active, participatory citizenship; they are essential pieces of America’s heritage and global identity. Anti-trans legislation...
POTUS’ 2024 Proposed Budget Full of Numbers but Lacks Art
President Biden’s 2024 proposed budget is full of numbers, but lacks arts and culture. It’s time to fully fund the NEA.
Hey Mr. President: You Know Who Can Get the Job Done? Artists.
Creative types in small towns, suburbs, and big cities can help systemic problems challenging our entire populations, regardless of the color of the collar.
4AS ATTENDS WESTERN ARTS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE IN CALGARY
Part of the 4As team was lucky to make a trek to Calgary for the 2022 Western Arts Alliance (WAA) conference. WAA iss a community of presenters and managers who collaborate to bring performing arts to audiences in the Western region of the United States and Canada. In...
4AS VISITS SANTA FE & SWAIA
Members of our staff were fortunate to attend the SWAIA (Southwestern Association for Indian Arts) Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a profound, inspirational, educational, political, eye-opening, joyous display of Native art from across North America. There...
How Do We Know It’s Art? From Pebbles to Pop
How many of us, as children or otherwise, have gone on some outdoor adventure and brought home a rock or shell? Perhaps it was a stone of unusual smoothness, or a piece of quartz that sparkled, or a shell with a fluted pink inner curve. We carry them home and place...
A Message from Our Leadership
Greetings! I’m thrilled to welcome you to 4A Arts. “Thrilled” might seem hyperbolic, but it’s no exaggeration. I firmly believe that American arts and culture can rebuild our tattered republic. I firmly believe that the 4As’ mission can help build a membership of...
What Is Art? Craft, Kunst, and Hana No’eau
What do we mean when we use the word “art?” When we see or speak the word, a variety of images likely come to mind, from art galleries to paint palettes to the Mona Lisa.
Art @ Our Heart: FDR’s WPA in the USA
The power and the promise of the art generated under the auspices of the Federal Art Project are with us as icons to this day… Art, then as now, is simultaneously meal and recipe, compass and map, sword and shield.
4A Arts believes arts and culture are basic human rights and powerful tools for building a healthy society. As a nonprofit social movement, we seek to democratize, catalyze, and prioritize arts, culture, design and craft in American society. Our goals include increased public support for the creative economy (commensurate with its impact on the American economy) by all levels of government, and creation of a Secretary of Arts and Culture.