Panel

Should the arts have a place in the federal government equal to that of national defense? Are the people of the United States ready to move beyond the siege mentality of the “culture wars” and to explore new possibilities for acknowledging and supporting the arts? What is the case for creating a U.S. Secretary of Culture?

Moderator
Sondra Meyers, consultant, International Cultural and Civic Projects

Participants
Lonnie G. Bunch, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Annie Cohen-Solal, writer, cultural historian, former Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy
Frank Hodsoll, Co-Chair, American Assembly on the Arts and the Public Purpose
Clement Alexander Price, Director, Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience