Arts Impact on Social Cohesion

Arts Impact on Social Cohesion

2024 Arts+ Agenda Arts+ While we may disagree that arts, culture, design and craft are “not useful in the way that STEM is useful” we DO endorse Francie Lin’s idea in The Bostonn Globe that the human connection they foster is a balm for society, and...
FDR at the opening of MOMA

FDR at the opening of MOMA

2024 Arts+ Agenda Arts+ In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and all of us at 4A Arts find this quote particularly resonant, as we work to democratize, catalyze, and prioritize arts, culture, design and...
Studying the Arts increases Voting

Studying the Arts increases Voting

2024 Arts+ Agenda Arts+ According to the Cultural Learning Alliance’s 2017 “Key Research Findings: the value of cultural learning,” students from low-income families who engage in the arts at school are 20% more likely to vote as young adults.  ...