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IDEAS

Inspiring Ideas about Arts in America

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 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

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

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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