Vital Conversations

INTRODUCING VITAL CONVERSATIONS

Our movements for justice and liberation are fractured. People are isolated and under attack: hunted on the streets by immigration agents, threatened with deportation for their political expression. And it’s become increasingly clear that we can’t turn to our elected officials for guidance.

At the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, we’re returning to our roots: gathering wisdom from our communities through honest, creative conversations. We're launching Vital Conversations, a new multimedia series where USDAC team members sit down with thinkers, artists, and organizers to ask big and small questions—and make beautiful things in the process.

We’re going to be sharing these conversations in different forms: video, zine, comic, music, and more. We’re engaging our own networks and friendships to model the kind of community connection that’s going to help us fight, and we’re making art while we’re at it.

Learn more about the program here.

 
 

Artists Unite for a Green New Deal — Toolkit

Artists Unite for a Green New Deal — Toolkit

What is the Green New Deal? How will it address the climate crisis? What are creative ways to get involved? As artists, educators, cultural workers, and community leaders, it’s our job to envision the more just world we know is possible—and to invite others to help bring it into being. Use these resources from the USDAC to get started!

Artists Unite for a Green New Deal - Summer Call Series

Artists Unite for a Green New Deal - Summer Call Series

Check out the recordings from this three-part series of calls with artists, organizers, scientists and others to unpack the policy and science behind a Green New Deal—and dream into the cultural strategies and creative actions that can help make it real.

Citizen Artist Salon: The People's EPA: Art as a Strategy for Climate Justice

Citizen Artist Salon: The People's EPA: Art as a Strategy for Climate Justice

In this Citizen Artist Salon, we’ll get ready for the Global Climate Action Summit by hearing from leaders of three projects centering art to build power and confront the climate crisis—and we’ll discuss ways that we can all step up our creative action.