Aspen Ideas Festival

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Fact:
17% versus 5%: Students with access to the arts in high school are three times more likely than students who lack those experiences to earn a bachelor's degree.
—National Endowment for the Arts, March 2012

Audio/Video: Arts

Shakespeare and Auden
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia and Washington, DC's Shakespeare Theatre Director Michael Kahn... See more
Does a City Create or Reflect its Urban Culture?
The city and its public institutions: museums, libraries, stadiums, and music halls. Why are these critical to a city's... See more
Why Novels?
PBS anchor Jim Lehrer, cultural critic Kurt Andersen, Yale Law professor Stephen Carter, and former UN official Shashi... See more
Reading and Democracy: What's at Stake?
Why read? National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia explores the enormous social, political, and economic... See more
Women in American Culture
What women do we see on the screen and in print? Are they more or less complex or realistic than they were half a... See more
An Evening of Poetry with Billy Collins
An intimate and laugh-filled poetry reading and discussion with former two-term US Poet Laureate Billy Collins.  See more

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Fact: Arts
Multimedia artists and animators will be most in demand through 2018—that profession will see a 14 percent increase in employment.
—Bureau of Labor Statistics