Nick Rabkin
The Arts are Back: White House Convenes and Briefs Arts Activists
Posted by May 21, 2009 8 comments
Nick Rabkin
Given the abundance of crises and combustible situations we face, one would hardly blame the new administration if it moved slowly on the cultural front. But there’s been something of an arts offensive in the last little while. Last week, the President named a new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and hosted the first spoken word performance at the White House featuring young poet-rappers. Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of the arts and arts education. And I was lucky to be included in a delegation of about sixty-five people from around the country who were briefed by White House staff about the arts and cultural policy. Remarkable.
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