The Guide. A First Draft. Topics, Values and Actions.
DIG DEEP: Art, Action & the Rootball of American Democracy Organizing Art and Artists across the United States of America The “Blue Eagle” symbol of the New Deal in the 1930s, Here applied to public arts programs. A Guide from Artists United for the American Democracy “In all people I see myself, none more and none a barley corn less” - Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Preserving and spreading the roots of American Democracy through the most serious political threat to individual freedom and human and civil rights in generations of Americans. Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution 1932 ONE: Art, creating and transforming American culture, matters politically. First, let us SEE ourselves, our communities, our nation. Let us show WHAT IS . American artists responded to great crises in the past , from slavery, the Civil War, the struggle against fascism and economic collapse in the 1930s, the Civil Rights movement. The value of creat