By DANIELLE KLINE and JASMINE MAHMOUD, FOUNDING EDITORS
Published: Issue 1, Summer 2009
Part of SPECIAL REPORT: The Arts & The Economy
The current economic lens calls for a drastic re-thinking of arts policy that is not just led by economic policy. Rather, a progressive arts policy means a long-term investment in our cultural future that promotes inclusion, sustainability and progress. To advance such development, arts policy must come from language, positioning, education, partnerships, policy, as well as funding. Arts policy must come from the arts community, from activists, and from policymakers. The Arts Politic has chosen to articulate such a policy, which includes robust, diverse proposals that can be started today, or in the near future. [...]
