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*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:52:06 EDT

By Isaac Butler

Lots of interesting stories about the arts (both Obama related and not) in the news. Here are a few of them:

First off, in the SF Gate we get For Obama, A Campaign of Creativity about art shows related to Obama.

Kiff Galagher, a big proponent of Obama's Artists Corps idea, has two web posts about music education. The first (which appears in the HuffPo) details his idea for a Music Service Corps. The second, appearing in the America Forward Blog, details his ideas about how arts education can help move America forward by "develop[ing] our nation's pipeline of social investors".

The Detroit Free Press has an interesting article about the need for Cities to "Think Regionally" instead of as unconnected Wild West settlements:

Government at all levels needs to push smart policies that sustain regional economies and encourage local officials to think, plan and act beyond their borders. The next president -- working with governments, mayors and other regional leaders -- should develop a policy for metro areas that includes incentives to encourage shared services and even government mergers.

Covering only 12% of the land, the nation's 100 largest metro areas produce two-thirds of the jobs and three-quarters of the economic output, reports the Brookings Institution's MetroPolicy study. These metros, ranging in population from 500,000 in Lansing to 19 million in New York City, are home to two-thirds of Americans. They harbor the roads, railways, shipyards and airports that connect the nation's metropolitan economies to each other and to the world.

How would the arts fit into such regional planning?

Arts Education is on the decline in State Schools, and schools all over the country are struggling to keep their arts programs. I think you can guess which candidate would do something about that.

Finally, in the world of changing business models, an article on how arts fairs might be doing away with galleries. Are arts fairs the iTUNES Music Store of the New Millennium? Check it out here.

Fiber Artists for Obama

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:02:05 EDT

Fiber Artists for Obama are working together to create an Obama inspired quilt. To follow their project, you can visit

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fiberartistsforobama/pool/

Help Obama's Arts Policy Committee reach out to voters!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:34:36 EDT

Obama's National Arts Policy Committee will be distributing the campaign's official arts policy platform to the Indiana and North Carolina arts community in order to cultivate a base of arts voters before the fast approaching primary. Obama is committed to the arts, and it's important we, as writers, artists, performers, and musicians, do our part to help win these importnat states!

Do you know any arts professionals in these states? Write me at obamaarts@gmail.com to get a pdf of the platform and a letter from our committee chairs, Margo Lions and George Stevens, Jr., to send out to your personal contacts. Or send me email and professional affiliations of people you know working in the Pennsylvania art community and we will send those documents out to your contacts. Any emails submitted will be kept private will only be used to send the official letter and policy document.

Do you have time to help us do some online research? I am looking for volunteers to help me do some online research for this big project. We need to find all the arts organizations in these states and get emails for the staff of those organizations. We will be working on this right away, but since it's just online research, you can do this from home and at any time of day. If you have some time to help out, please reply back via email to obamaarts@gmail.com.

Thanks so much,

Shawnee Barton
Obama for America Arts Policy Committee Member

Help Obama's Arts Policy Committee reach out to voters!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:33:44 EDT

Help Obama's Arts Policy Committee reach out to voters!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:32:28 EDT

Help Obama's Arts Policy Committee reach out to voters!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:30:56 EDT

Photos from Arts Policy Event in Philadelphia

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:02:29 EDT

The Arts Policy Committee recenlty held an event in Philadephia to discuss Obama's arts policy platform and encourage artsits and art supporters there to vote for Obama in tomorrow's primary. Here are a few pictures frome the event.

If you have pictures or stories from arts events for Obama, I encourage you to post a blog for our group. And feel free to send us an email at obamaarts@gmail.com to get a copy of his arts policy platform to have available at your events.

Visit this link to hear Daniel Pink Speak about Arts Education

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:36:07 EDT

http://www.artsusa.org/information_services/video_audio/default.asp#pink

Listen to Daniel Pink deliver the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy April 11, 2008—Author Daniel Pink delivered the 21st Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy on March 31 at the John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

In this provocative lecture, Pink makes what he calls a “hard-headed case for arts education.” He explains how three powerful forces in the economy are making logical, linear, rule-based, “left-brain” abilities necessary in the workforce, but no longer sufficient. And he shows how these three forces—what he calls abundance, Asia, and automation—are making artistic, empathic, big picture, “right brain” abilities the most important abilities in just about every profession in industry.

Obama Street Art page on flikr!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:56 EDT

Check out all this incredible Obama Street art and get inspired to create some Obama art of your own.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/obamastreetart/pool/

Happy Creating!

Watch this video: Barack speaks on Arts education

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:48:34 EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2Zy_68RcY

NY Sun article about the artiat and writers event held in New York

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:21:13 EDT

http://www.nysun.com/article/71714

I encourage everyone to host arts evvents for Obama in their area. If you'd like to share his arts policy papers with your group, email me at obamaarts@gmail.com to get a copy.

Arts Policy in the LA Times!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:02:18 EDT

Here is the link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-polartists4mar04,1,2194161.story

Help Obama's National Arts Policy Committee Reach Pennsylvania Arts Supporters

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:35:38 EDT

Obama's National Arts Policy Committee will be distributing the campaign's official arts policy platform to the Pennsylvania art community in order to cultivate a base of arts voters before the primary. Obama is committed to the arts, and it's important we, as writers, artists, performers, and musicians, do our part to help win Pennsylvania!

Do you know any arts professionals in Pennsylvania? Write me at obamaarts@gmail.com to get a pdf of the platform and a letter from our committee chairs, Margo Lions and George Stevens, Jr., to send out to your personal contacts. Or send me email and professional affiliations of people you know working in the Pennsylvania art community and we will send those documents out to your contacts. Any emails submitted will be kept private will only be used to send the official letter and policy document.

Do you have time to help us do some online research? I am looking for a few volunteers to help me do some online research for this big project. We need to find all the arts organizations in Pennsylvania and get emails for the staff of those organizations. We will be working on this right away, but since it's just online research, you can do this from home and at any time of day. If you have some time to help out, please reply back via email to obamaarts@gmail.com.

Thanks so much,

Shawnee Barton

Obama for America Arts Policy Committee Member

Help Obama's National Arts Policy Committee Reach Pennsylvania Arts Supporters

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:18:04 EDT

Thanks so much,

Shawnee Barton

Obama for America Arts Policy Committee Member

Help Obama's National Arts Policy Committee Reach Pennsylvania Arts Supporters

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:16:15 EDT

Help Obama's National Arts Policy Committee Reach Pennsylvania Arts Supporters

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:14:54 EDT

Help Obama's National Arts Policy Committee Reach Pennsylvania Arts Supporters

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:11:25 EDT

Boston Globe Editorial Applauds Obama's Arts Platform

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:37:48 EST

Campaign for the arts February 24, 2008

ON THE presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama is a fount of inspiring rhetoric. So it's interesting that the Illinois senator's stirring policy paper on arts and culture briefly hands the microphone to someone else, quoting poet Dana Gioia, the National Endowment for the Arts chairman.

Arts Education Excerpt from Obama's Speech

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:30:04 EST

At a recent arts industry event for Obama in Santa Monica, one attendee stood up and voiced her desire for either presidential candidate to publicly discuss the arts. Senator Obama may not have been at the meeting, but he heard her and all the other Americans who are looking for a candidate to stand up for the arts.

About nine minutes in to the victory speech he gave from Virginia on February 9th, Senator Obama told his supporters that he doesn't want teachers to "teach to the test," instead, "I want our students to learn art, and music, and science, and poetry, and all the things that make an education worth while."

YES WE CAN elect a president who believes in arts education!

Here is a link to the speech on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9XeEzokCvQ

Join Artists and Creative Industry for Obama!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:46:46 EST

We invite you to join Artists and Creative Industry for Obama! It is moderated by Obama for America's National Arts Policy Committee and has the most up to date information about where Obama stands on the Arts.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

While you're there, read Obama's official policy platform in support of art and culture and articles written by Art Policy committee members Michael Chabon and George Stevens, Jr.

Join Artists and Creative Industry for Obama!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:44:24 EST

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

While you're there, read Obama's official policy platform in support of art and culture and articles written by Art Policy committee members Michael Chabon and George Stevens, Jr.

Join Artists and Creative Industry for Obama!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:41:50 EST

While you're there, read Obama's official policy platform in support of art and culture and articles written by Art Policy committee members Michael Chabon and George Stevens, Jr.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

Please visit and join Artists and Creative Industry for Obama

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:40:10 EST

While you're there, read Obama's official policy platform in support of art and culture and articles written by committee members Michael Chabon and George Stevens, Jr.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

Obama's Arts Policy is now available in PDF!!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:30:07 EST

If you would like a pdf of Obama's Official Arts Platform, please email obamaarts@gmail.com

Barack Obama's Platform in Support of the Arts

Reinvest in Arts Education: To remain competitive in the global economy, America needs to reinvigorate the kind of creativity and innovation that has made this country great. To do so, we must nourish our children's creative skills. In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education. Unfortunately, many school districts are cutting instructional time for art and music education. Barack Obama believes that the arts should be a central part of effective teaching and learning. The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts recently said, "The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society." To support greater arts education, Obama will:

1. Expand Public/Private Partnerships Between Schools and Art Organizations: Barack Obama will increase resources for the U.S. department of Education's Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants, which develop public/private partnerships between schools and arts organizations. Obama will also engage the foundation and corporate community to increase support for public/private partnerships.

2. Create an Artist Corps: Barack Obama supports the creation of an "Artists Corps" of young artists trained to work in low-income schools and their communities. Studies in Chicago have demonstrated that test scores improved faster for students enrolled in low-income schools that link arts across the curriculum than scores for students in schools lacking such programs.

3. Publicly Champion the Importance of Arts Education: As president, Barack Obama will use the bully pulpit and the example he will set in the White House to promote the importance of arts and arts education in America. Not only is arts education indispensable for success in a rapidly changing, high skill, information economy, but studies show that arts education raises test scores in other subject areas as well.

Support Increased Funding for the NEA: Over the last 15 years, government funding for the National Endowment for the Arts has been slashed from $175 million annually in 1992 to $125 million today. Barack Obama supports increased funding for the NEA, the support which enriches schools and neighborhoods all across the nation and helps to promote the economic development of countless communities.

Promote Cultural Diplomacy: American artists, performers and thinkers--representing our values and ideals--can inspire people both at home and all over the world. Through efforts like that of The United States Information Agency, America's cultural leaders were deployed around the world during the Cold War as artistic ambassadors and helped win the war of ideas by demonstrating to the world the promise of America.

Attract Foreign Talent: The flipside to promoting American arts and culture abroad is welcoming members of the foreign arts community to America. Opening America's doors to students and professional artists provides the kind of two-way cultural understanding that can break down the barriers that feed hatred and fear. As America tightened visa restrictions after 9/11, the world's most talented students and artists, who used to come here, went elsewhere. Barack Obama will streamline the visa process to return America to its rightful place as the world's top destination for artists and art students.

Provide Health Care to Artists: Finding affordable healthcare coverage has often been one of the most vexing obstacles for artists and those in the creative community. Since many artists work independently or have non-traditional employment relationships, employer-based coverage is unavailable and individual policies are financially out of reach. Barack Obama's plan will provide all Americans with quality, affordable healthcare. His plan includes the creation of a new public program that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health care similar to that available to federal employees. His plan also creates a National Insurance Exchange to reform the private insurance market and allow Americans to enroll in participating private plans, which would have to provide comprehensive benefits, issue every applicant a policy, and charge fair and stable premiums. For those who still cannot afford coverage, the government will provide a subsidy. His healthcare plan will lower costs for the typical American Family by up to $2,500 per year.

Ensure Tax Fairness for Artists: Barack Obama supports the Artist-Museum Partnership Act, introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). The Act amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow artists to deduct the fair market value of their work, rather than just the costs of the materials, when they make charitable contributions.

George Stevens, Jr.'s article about Obama on The Huffington Post

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:48:33 EST

George Stevens, Jr. is the Co-Chair of the Obama for America National Arts Policy Committee. Below is an article he recently wrote for The Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-stevens/barack-obama-the-man-i-k_b_84866.html

Barack Obama: The Man I Know

Posted February 4, 2008 | 01:57 PM (EST)

In the fall of 2003 Vernon Jordan asked me to stop by a fundraiser at his house in Washington for a friend of his who was seeking the Democratic nomination for the United States senate in Illinois. Vernon said, "Please come by, we need people. You don't have to give any money.

When I arrived only a few people were there and I found myself in a ten minute conversation with a young State Senator from Illinois. I was writing a play about Thurgood Marshall and he seemed a good subject for conversation with a man who excelled at the Harvard Law School and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. I went home that night and told my wife that I had met an exceptional man. It had something to do with the way he listened, the look in his eyes, the easy smile. He was there to meet people and raise money, but nothing would distract him from whomever he was talking to at a particular moment. Vernon Jordan is nobody's fool -- I left a check for Obama for Senate, as did his other guests.

Since that day in 2003 I have found the qualities that attracted me to Barack Obama magnified. He was, of course, inspiring at the Democratic Convention in Boston. On November 21, 2005, the day that would have been Robert Kennedy's eightieth birthday, he was the speaker at the RFK Human Rights Awards. The ceremony was held in the U.S. Senate Caucus Room, the setting where both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy announced their candidacies for president. There was a quality in Barack Obama that day, as he spoke about human rights, that evoked the unfulfilled legacy of Robert Kennedy. He inspired a belief that this country's problems could be addressed. A glance at his biography made me realize that in 2008 this youthful looking senator would be three years older than John and Robert were when they ran for president. I wrote him the next day urging him to run in 2008, and I watched him contemplate that possibility during 2006.

He was relaxed and centered as he evaluated his prospects; he sought the advice of people he respected; he assessed the obstacles and the work that would have to be accomplished; and he made his decision. Then he put together a staff and a campaign team, and began to enlist followers, much like the community organizer he once was in Chicago. The new kid on the block raised more money than the incumbent Clinton organization that was able to call on political resources developed over a decade.

At the outset, he described a strategy that has not been altered. He told his supporters that the plan was to make a showing in Iowa and then people around the country would begin to hear his message and move in his direction. I saw him last fall when he remained thirty points behind in the national polls and the press was nearly unanimous in saying that the "rock star," as they had dubbed him, was a flash in the pan. Some of his supporters were discouraged and the pundits were insisting that he must attack Senator Clinton directly. He spoke to his supporters who met in Des Moines on the Columbus Day weekend. He told us that he was confident that he was going to win the nomination and the presidency. He was compelling, self assured and believable. He promised that he would be "making distinctions" between himself and Senator Clinton, but that to attack her personally would undercut the underlying theme of his campaign which was to put the politics of polarization and division behind us.

His supporters were reassured that night. Barack went on to win Iowa and the American public began to take notice.

Over the past four years, I have observed in him a consistency that earns confidence. He is thoughtful, courteous and humorous, yet he leaves no doubt that, while being a good listener, he will shape his own thinking and fight for what he believes in. He makes me believe that we can be the country we want to be, that we can solve the intractable problems that have divided us, that we can enlist the youth of America to help build our future, that we can be respected again in the eyes of the world -- and, yes, that we can have a president who will call us to the high ground, and ask us to ask ourselves, once again, not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country.

Michael Chabon's Washington Post Article

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:35:41 EST

The Washington Post, Monday February 4, 2008

By Michael Chabon

Obama vs. the Phobocracy

There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason.

Because I have come out publicly for the senator from Illinois, I am often called upon to listen as people offer up -- with wistfulness and regret, or with a pundit's show of certainty, or with a well-earned but useless skepticism -- their bad reasons for not giving Obama their support. For a long time now, I have listened to these people with forbearance and with a sense of duty -- not to some principle of open debate or of the inherent merit in the free exchange of even meritless ideas, but rather out of obligation to the candidate whose cause I champion.

Because Obama appears to be a patient, forbearing man with a gift for listening, I figured I owed it to him to play the thing his way. So I have nodded and looked into their eyes and hummed sympathetically as people gave their reasons and made their excuses and generally offered up, as if they were golden ingots of profound wisdom, the handful of two-penny nails with which they plan to board up the windows of their hopes for themselves, their families, their country and the world.

But now, with everything seeming to come down, at last, to the first Tuesday in February, and in the wake of an all-out, months-long push by the cynicism industry to cook up an entire line of bad reasons ready to heat and serve, I admit that I'm getting tired of listening to rationales from people who know that Obama is a remarkable, even an extraordinary politician, the kind who comes along, in this era of snakes and empty smiles, no more than once a generation.

Oh, sure, most of these people tell me they would like to see Obama become president. No question, he comes off as at once brilliant and sensible, vibrant and measured, engaged and engaging, talented, forthright, quick-witted, passionate, thoughtful and, as with all remarkable people whom experience has taught both the extent and the bitter limits of their gifts, reasonably humble. In a better world, people tell me, in theory, sure, having a president like Barack Obama sounds great. But not, you know, for real. Not in the base, corrupt, morally spent, toxic and reeling rats' nest that we like to call home. Things are so bad we just can't afford to waste our votes, people tell me, on some fantasy super-president with magical powers. We need someone electable, someone, as I have been told repeatedly in the past year, who can win.

Of course this misses the point; it misses all kinds of points. In a better world, if there were such a thing (and so far there never has been), we would not need a president like Obama as badly as we do. If there were less at stake, if our democracy had not been permitted, indeed encouraged, to sink to its present degraded and embattled condition not only by the present administration but by a fair number of those people now seeking to head up the next one, perhaps then we could afford to waste our votes on the candidate who knows best how to jigger, to manipulate and to conform to the vapid specifications of the debased electoral process it has been our unhappy fate to construct for ourselves.

Because ultimately, that is the point of Obama's candidacy -- of the hope, enthusiasm and sense of purpose it inspires, yes, but more crucially, of the very doubts and reservations expressed by those who pronounce, whether in tones of regret, certainty or skepticism, that America is not ready for Obama, or that Obama is not ready for the job, or that nobody of any worth or decency -- supposing there even to be such a person left on the American political scene -- can be expected to survive for a moment with his idealism and principle intact.

The point of Obama's candidacy is that the damaged state of American democracy is not the fault of George W. Bush and his minions, the corporate-controlled media, the insurance industry, the oil industry, lobbyists, terrorists, illegal immigrants or Satan. The point is that this mess is our fault. We let in the serpents and liars, we exchanged shining ideals for a handful of nails and some two-by-fours, and we did it by resorting to the simplest, deepest-seated and readiest method we possess as human beings for trying to make sense of the world: through our fear. America has become a phobocracy.

Since I started talking and writing about Obama I have come to see that this ruling fear, and nothing else, lies at the back of every objection or reservation people raise or harbor regarding the man and his candidacy.

Fear whispers to us that white voters have a nasty tendency to tell pollsters, friends and neighbors that they support an African American candidate, then go into the voting booth and let the fear known as racism pull the lever.

Fear tells us that ugliness, rage and brutality are the central facts of human existence, that decency and tolerance are luxuries on whose altar our enemies will be only too happy to sacrifice us.

It is through our fear of falling prey to the calamity and misadventure from which the media promise faithlessly to protect us -- a fear manufactured and sold by the media themselves -- that we accept without question the media-borne canard (tainted, in my view, by a racism as insidious as any that hides behind the curtains of voting booths) that Barack Obama, a seasoned and successful 46-year-old husband and father of two, a man sweeping into the prime of his life with all his sails and flags unfurled, is too young and inexperienced for a job that demands vitality and flexibility and that, furthermore, has made nonsense of glittering resumes, laughingstocks of practiced old hands and, in a reverse of Popeye's old trick, ravenous alligators out of years of accumulated baggage.

Fear and those who fatten on it spread vile lies about Obama's religion, his past drug use, his views on Israel and the Jews. Fear makes us see the world purely in terms of enemies and perils, and leads us to seek out the promise of leadership, however spurious it proves to be, among those who speak the language of that doomed and demeaning, that inhuman view of the world.

But the most pitiable fear of all is the fear of disappointment, of having our hearts broken and our hopes dashed by this radiant, humane politician who seems not just with his words but with every step he takes, simply by the fact of his running at all, to promise so much for our country, for our future and for the eventual state of our national soul. I say "pitiable" because this fear of disappointment, which I hear underlying so many of the doubts that people express to me, is ultimately a fear of finding out the truth about ourselves and the extent of the mess that we have gotten ourselves into. If we do fight for Obama, work for him, believe in him, vote for him, and the man goes down to defeat by the big-money machines and the merchants of fear, then what hope will we have left to hold on to?

Thus in the name of preserving hope do we disdain it. That is how a phobocracy maintains its grip on power.

To support Obama, we must permit ourselves to feel hope, to acknowledge the possibility that we can aspire as a nation to be more than merely secure or predominant. We must allow ourselves to believe in Obama, not blindly or unquestioningly as we might believe in some demagogue or figurehead but as we believe in the comfort we take in our families, in the pleasure of good company, in the blessings of peace and liberty, in any thing that requires us to put our trust in the best part of ourselves and others. That kind of belief is a revolutionary act. It holds the power, in time, to overturn and repair all the damage that our fear has driven us to inflict on ourselves and the world.

And when we all wake up on Nov. 5, 2008, to find that we have made Barack Obama the president of the United States, the world is already going to feel, to all of us, a little different, a little truer to its, and our, better nature. It is part of the world's nature and of our own to break, ruin and destroy; but it is also our nature and the world's to find ways to mend what has been broken. We can do that. Come on. Don't be afraid.

Watch this Inspirational Artist Created Video for Obama!!

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:17:24 EST

http://www.dipdive.com/

Join Creative America for Obama

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:35:25 EST

We invite you to join Creative America for Obama! While you're there, read Obama's official platform in support of art and culture.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

Join Creative America for Obama

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:32:34 EST

We invite you to join Creative America for Obama! While you're there, read Obama's official platform in support of art and culture.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

Join Creative America for Obama

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:24:22 EST

We invite you to join Creative America for Obama! While you're there, read Obama's official platform in support of art and culture.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/CreativeAmericaforObama

Barack Obama: A Champion For Arts and Culture

*Arts Policy Committee* from Chicago, IL — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:20:55 EST

Barack Obama's Platform in Support of the Arts

Expand Public/Private Partnerships Between Schools and Art Organizations: Barack Obama will increase resources for the U.S. department of Education's Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants, which develop public/private partnerships between schools and arts organizations. Obama will also engage the foundation and corporate community to increase support for public/private partnerships.

Create an Artist Corps: Barack Obama supports the creation of an "Artists Corps" of young artists trained to work in low-income schools and their communities. Studies in Chicago have demonstrated that test scores improved faster for students enrolled in low-income schools that link arts across the curriculum than scores for students in schools lacking such programs.

Publicly Champion the Importance of Arts Education: As president, Barack Obama will use the bully pulpit and the example he will set in the White House to promote the importance of arts and arts education in America. Not only is arts education indispensable for success in a rapidly changing, high skill, information economy, but studies show that arts education raises test scores in other subject areas as well.