Notable Quotable: Jane Chu on art in our everyday lives


By Jane Chu, NEA Chair
an Asian woman looking at art on paper in an art-filled studio space
At the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota. Photo by NEA staff

"The greatest opportunity that we have is to make sure that people understand the arts are not by themselves and they are not in a specific category unrelated to the rest of our lives, that they infuse our lives every day. Look around us. Look at our designs, look at our clothes, look at our smart phones, look at our cars and everything else we touch. When people really understand how the arts permeate our lives on a daily basis, that’s an opportunity to really celebrate the arts and say, wait a minute, we’ve got to have art." -- Jane Chu