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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 Artists vs. AI – How to Win the First Battle
4A Arts exists to change the narrative around arts and culture in the United States. We believe that art is for everyone and that everyone is an artist, and that American art creates American identity. We aim to lift up the work of artists (both professionals and...
It’s 2023, Long Past 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...
Thrilled to Welcome the Members of the President’s Council on the Arts and the Humanities
We at 4A Arts are thrilled with President Biden’s reinstitution of the President’s Council on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH). President Biden has 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. Trans erasure not only...
POTUS’ 2024 Proposed Budget Full of Numbers but Lacks Art
Today, President Biden sent his proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 to Congress. In it were financial priorities for every federal department, technological investments to grow manufacturing, and strategic initiatives to shore up jobs and national security. The...
Hey Mr. President: You Know Who Can Get the Job Done? Artists.
“Let’s get the job done,” President Biden stated multiple times in his State of the Union speech. He highlighted a litany of challenges, from job creation to healthy competition with China, from climate change to police reform, all of which are indeed pressing issues...
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
Art was the point of it all. Woven into our very origin story as a country. A “right.” The thing that would show we had arrived as a nation taking up an honored place on the international scene. A hallmark of democracy.