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From the President’s Desk: “What If?” The Two Words at the Heart of Art and Innovation

From the President’s Desk: “What If?” The Two Words at the Heart of Art and Innovation

By Justin Kiczek  President  What if I dripped paint onto a canvas on the floor? What if I tried to write the way people actually think? What if we played this song, but electric? These are not idle questions. They are the questions that gave us Jackson Pollock, stream-of-consciousness literature, and rock and roll. “What if” is the question artists have always asked…

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From the President’s Desk: A Generational Opportunity for Democratic Renewal

From the President’s Desk: A Generational Opportunity for Democratic Renewal

By Justin Kiczek President In July 1776, with British troops amassing in New York and his fellow patriots poised to declare independence, George Washington acknowledged the very real and fatal possibility of failure: “The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army … We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or…

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