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America’s Cultural Recovery

“Tickertape, Wall St.” by WPA Artist Mary Perry Stone. For more on Stone, click on the picture.

By ARLENE GOLDBARD
Published: Issue 1, Summer 2009
Part of SPECIAL REPORT: The Arts & The Economy

Then and now, sustainable recovery is rooted in communities’ own awareness of challenges and our own knowledge of everything that supports resilience and healing. Artists are uniquely able to stimulate social imagination, working with people to cultivate creativity, connection and strength. Today, as always, sustainable national recovery demands cultural recovery. [...]

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