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When we talk about the value of arts and culture to society, we always start with its intrinsic value: how arts and culture can illuminate our inner lives and enrich our emotional world.

The Three Prayers by Larry Christensen

This is what we cherish.

However, we also understand that arts and culture has a wider, more measurable impact on our economy, health and wellbeing, society and education. It’s important we also recognize this impact to help people think of our arts and culture for what they are: a strategic national resource.

 Desert Rain by Mary Collar

The value of arts and culture to people and society outlines the existing evidence on the impact of arts and culture on our economy, health and well being, society and education.

 Red River Valley by Carolyn Tibbetts

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” ~John Lubbock (1834-1913), “The Pleasures of Life”

 It's Alive by Phil Wagner