Artsmarts: Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea
An excerpt worth a close look! Taken from Artsmarts: “Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea” By Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein Created Feb 14 2011 – 5:43pm
“Congress is once again making plans to gut the National Endowment for the Arts, so it is time for us to post more data supporting the arts. In previous posts, we’ve argued that the arts are essential for the development of scientific imagination. (See A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus; Arts and Crafts: Keys to Scientific Creativity; Arts at the Center of Creative Education). Here we argue that the arts stimulate economic development by fostering scientific and technological innovation.” Read The Full Article
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