Arts Summit 2018: An Illustrated Story

ISSUE #1 | 2018

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ACTIVATING CITIZEN ARTISTS EXPLORING KENNEDY IDEALS SHAPING OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE

The Future States of America: Using the Arts to Take Us Where We Want to Go The Kennedy Center Arts Summit is an annual spring convening designed to bring thought leaders from the arts and related fields together for conversation and connection. Held in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2018, this year’s edition of the Summit looked into the future — what is the collective future we want and how can we use arts, creativity, culture, and technology to get us there? How do we build a future where the markers of certain identities are no longer indicators of barriers or poor outcomes? Through the landscapes of education, health, and finite resources, we explored stories of existing, visionary projects and engaged in dialogues with artists, futurists, scientists, engineers, and policy makers that helped us catalyze new projects and partnerships, and brought us closer to activating a future where we all thrive. Together we engaged in a variety of panels, interactive art activities, and curated discussions that concentrated on major themes of identity, representation, creativity, culture, and technology.

This is the story of that day.

DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN Chairman DEBORAH F. RUTTER President MARIO R. ROSSERO Senior Vice President, Education

The Kennedy Center extends special thanks for the continued support of Chairman David M. Rubenstein, under whose guidance and leadership the Arts Summit was conceived.

A special thanks to our collaborators: Aspen Institute Citizen University Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts And to our thought partners: Trung Le Sam Seidel Peace First With gratitude, the Kennedy Center recognizes the following colleagues whose honest conversations and relevant performances inspired this comic book: Citizen Artist Fellows 2017-2018 Hakim Bellamy Reena Esmail Vijay Gupta Ekene Ijeoma De Nichols Michelle Angela Ortiz Katie Wyatt 2018-2019 Justus Harris Shaw Pong Liu Omar Offendum Donney Rose Rulan Tangen Session Hosts Sue Simon Mark Slavkin Bill Stetson Participants Austin Dean Ashford Jasmine Babers Mallory Bedford Amy K. Bormet Jamie Broadnax Sam Chaltain Linda Cliatt-Wayman Mayda del Valle Carlos Drews El Sistema Students Valerie Fletcher Jonathan Foley, PhD Mina Girgis

Gary Glazner Idris Goodwin Matt Gould Ryan Gravel Victor Haskins Nicole Hudson Marc Bamuthi Joseph J.PERIOD Trung Le Eric Liu Bella Lorenzo-Giguere Liz Manne Nalini M. Nadkarni Linda Nathan, EdD Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH Bill O’Brien Susan Pell Susanna Pollack Angelique Power Andrew Randazzo Mario R. Rossero David M. Rubenstein Deborah F. Rutter Sam Seidel Judy Simpson Hank Willis Thomas Stephanie Williams Damian Woetzel Maimouna Youssef Special thanks to our comic book artist, Laura Lee Gulledge. Š 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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