Art, Culture and the National Agenda is a multi-stage project on national policy challenges in the arts and culture. Designed to highlight policy options for the next Congress and President, Art, Culture and the National Agenda also seeks to establish the vocabulary for a continuing national dialogue about the value of creativity and cultural heritage in our individual and collective lives.

All stages of the project coalesce around the seven issue areas the Center for Arts and Culture has targeted as having important intersections with creativity and cultural heritage. They are:

Creativity and the Law
Globalization
Access and Equity
Preservation
Communities
The National Investment
Education and the Creative Workforce

More than 85 scholars, practitioners and leaders of cultural organizations contributed background information, policy perspectives and statistical material for Art, Culture and the National Agenda.  From this material, products include:

• structural recommendations for the administration and Congress.  (A PDF of this report is now available.)
• detailed issue briefs on each of the policy areas outlined above. These issue briefs will be released beginning in Fall of 2001.

Now available:
PDF of Creativity, Culture, Education and the Creative Workforce
PDF of Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy
PDF of Strengthening Communities through Culture (print copies no longer available)
PDF of Preserving our Heritage
PDF the Executive Summary of Copyright as Cultural Policy

• public forums for discussion, panel presentations and other multi-media events. (PDFs of the First Amendment Forum and Forum on Preservation now available)
• highlighted work of individual contributors and others in working papers, monographs and roundtable discussions. (PDF of the first of these is available.)

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Questions about Art, Culture and the National Agenda? Contact the Center for print copies of any of these materials.  To receive regular updates on this project and other Center activities, please join our listserv.

The Center for Arts and Culture is grateful for the continuing support of the Ford Foundation and for the project support of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.