Setting the Artist Free: Arts, Humanities, and the Common Good
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy
The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful. . . . It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. - Zadie Smith
What do the arts and humanities have to do with the common good? How might a poem, a portrait, or a performance shape our idea of what the common good looks like--or disrupt it? Please join Hopkins at Home and Common Question for a conversation with Atesede Makonnen and Andrew Motion, as they bring scholarly, creative, and civic engagement to the question of arts and the common good.