The Bolz Center collegium is food for thought in Madison, as featured in this article in The Capital Times. Bolz Center Director Andrew Taylor is a quoted expert in the article, which explores the challenge of valuing the arts and their role in community, economy, and education.

Current conversations about arts and community have been swinging between pure economic calculations and broader arguments about the intrinsic value of creative experience. From the article:

''The truth is somewhere in between,'' Taylor adds. ''You certainly have to do the economic impact studies and argue how art affects educational activity. But there are studies that say if you ignore looking at excellence and values, you lose the rest of it. The economic impact of art and how people spend their money are footprints. They are the byproducts of the real thing, not the real thing. They are the effect, not the cause, and eventually you have to focus on the cause, which is engaging, creative work of the highest quality possible.''

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