The 2013 s Americans For The Arts Policy Roundtable Program

The 2013’s Americans for the Arts policy roundtable program let the panels from different backgrounds got together and discussed about what arts should focus on this year, and the topic they came out was â€Å"Arts and Healing: Mind, Body and Community † (â€Å"2013 Report And Recommendations†, 3). When I first saw this topic, one name jumped into my mind, James Rhodes, a rising British pianist. He was abused by his teacher back into teenage time, and this tragic experience brought him not only physical harms but also mental illness. He got involved into some drug issues and everything just seemed so messed up. However, it is music that pulls him back from the edge and let him become whom he is today. He once said in the interview â€Å"On the piano†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦All those news are terrible, and it is about murder, corruption, and other bad things. Living in this society, I think everyone, no matter how happy that person looks like, we hav e some sort of â€Å"sickness† and need to get healed. Thus, I think this â€Å"policy† (it is more like a proposal to me) definitely is trying to serve a large population of people and aim to improve our living qualities and conditions in a more mentally way. According to this report, this program focused on providing arts programs and trainings for military veterans and service members as well. This policy also wants to cooperate with both social medias and healthcare organizations in order to hold healing groups to help people to recover and using digital technologies to increase the accessibility to arts (â€Å"2013 Report And Recommendations†, 4). First of all, I love their ideas of working with social media companies and high-technology companies. Nowadays, we rely on those two things the most, and try to let them get into the art world is actually making arts more visible and accessible to people. In the report, they said â€Å"Although we must take care to preserve the integrity of art, we should also welcome new digital changes and use them to improve our field† (â€Å"2013 Report And Recommendations†, 20). They also gave an example of how to digitalize the arts and let them easy to access, which was letting the music therapists