Looking to THE HORIZON

With a turbulent 2020 beginning to fade, the ar t world looks to the future with hope.

- MICHAEL CLAWSON

The recurring joke in action movies is how the hero could walk away from the big explosion and not turn around to witness the wanton destruction unfolding behind him. Having experienced 2020, I get it. I wouldn’t look either. It’s just too painful. Back there is chaos. Forward, that’s where this story has to take us.

And forward is where we’re going.

While pondering what 2021 might look like, we reached out to more than a dozen fine artists all around the country, and some outside of it, to get their perspectives on what is to come. What we found is a future filled with hope.

And make no mistake, that is a big deal. Our scientists and doctors will save our bodies. Our religious leaders will save our souls. Our elected officials will save our freedoms (fingers crossed on this one). But our culture, well, that is left to our artists. Our painters, our sculptors, our actors and dancers, musicians and poets, architects and designers, writers, photographers, printmakers…every artist in every field. What our future looks and sounds like is in their hands.