IDEAS
Inspiring Ideas about Arts in America
Imagine walking into your local library and finding the doors locked–not for renovation, not for a snow day–but permanently. Imagine your kids' school canceling the theater program, or your town's outdoor summer concert series shutting down for good. Imagine flipping...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...