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Schrodinger’s AI: Is Art Dead?

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?

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Within a Forest Dark: Art’s Journey into AI

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.

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American Art vs. AI – How to Win the First Battle

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...

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Anti-Trans Legislation Is Cultural Genocide

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...

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4AS ATTENDS WESTERN ARTS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE IN CALGARY

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...

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4AS VISITS SANTA FE & SWAIA

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...

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How Do We Know It’s Art? From Pebbles to Pop

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...

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A Message from Our Leadership

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...

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Art @ Our Heart: FDR’s WPA in the USA

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.

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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.

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