03/28/2026
The Arts in the Small Community:
A National Plan
by Robert E. Gard
If you try what may you expect?
First a community welded through art to a new consciousness of self.
A new being, perhaps a new appearance—A people proud of achievement which lifts them through the creative above the ordinary...
A new opportunity for children to find exciting experiences in art, and to carry this excitement on throughout their lives...
A mixing of peoples and backgrounds through art,
a new view of hope for mankind and an elevation of man...
not degradation.
New values for individual and community life AND a sense that here in our place we are contributing to the maturity of a great nation.
If you try you can indeed Alter the face and heart of America.