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Art is fundamental to our lives because it is how we collectively address the question "How shall we live?"  Art creates public spaces to negotiate our values and identities as a complex and interconnected collection of subcultures.  We cannot maintain a functional human culture without these negotiations.  It is a part of all of our lives because it is where all cultural conversations begin.

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