Dialogue
Published: Issue 1, Summer 2009
Part of DIALOGUE: Artists at the White House
Theater director Dudley Cocke, who attended the White House Office of Public Engagement briefing on the role of the arts in the national recovery, details the untold arts recession of 1997 sparked by unfavorable NEA changes, calls on us to get someone in the White House with an arts activism background, and reminds us that the civil rights movement—as with most social justice movements—was won, in large part, through the arts.
