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Quotes and insight from some of our most informed citizens

Our motivation for the formation of Red Tie Arts is summed up in the following quotes:

“Students who have an arts rich experience in school do better across–the-board academically, and they
also become more active and engaged citizens, voting, volunteering, and generally participating at high-
er rates than their peers.”

—Rocco Landesman,

Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them—a world
of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future
of our nation depends on providing our children with a
complete education that includes music.”

—Gerald Ford,
Former President of the United States

“My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for
kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and tolerance. This is true
across every boundary, across cultural boundaries, across socioeconomic, it's a great leveler in terms of
unifying our world.”

—Emma Walton Hamilton
Children's book author, theatrical director, and actress

One of the important lessons we’ve learned is that all successful youth arts programs do three things:
first, they provide positive adult role models; second, they give youth the opportunity for achievement
and, ultimately, recognition for this achievement; and, third, they enable youth to interact with people
who have healthy beliefs and consistent standards for behavior. Programs designed to achieve these
outcomes are best able to provide the opportunity that youth need to develop positive behaviors.

—Borrowed from the Americans for the Arts website