On December 10th, at the Henry Street Settlement House in Downtown New York City, Blueprints for Arts and Policy hosted a second salon, centred on the vital role of the “Arts in an Age of Democratic Decline.” Participants included Tom Finkelpearl, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Saladin Ambar, Andrea Lipps, Ronnie Cho, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Louise Mirrer, Mike Pell, Jon Key, and Liam Gillick. They addressed the necessity of a fundamental shift in how we consider democracy, by reinforcing arts and humanities education, and widening accessibility to both. Moving forward, Blueprints for Arts and Policy aims to apply the fantastic discourse from the Salons to create recommendations and to advise courses of action for policymaking which activates the arts as a necessary resource for good governance.
