Detail from poster for Federal Theatre Project 1938 presentation of Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing!" at Federal Theatre, Daly's Theatre, 63rd Street, New York City, Federal Art Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Public Domain.

Nobody Built an Institution for the Creative Practitioner Who Is Simply Awake

Writers, musicians, visual artists, performers, designers … every creative discipline deserves a seat at the table where civilization gets decided. You Already Know Something Is Wrong Creativity is being treated as expendable. The arts are the first thing cut, the last thing funded, and never once consulted when the decisions that shape culture get made.…