October is National Arts and Humanities Month. The arts and humanities are vital to human experience: We don’t just survive — we share feelings and ideas, build upon previous experiences, make observations, invent, explore and create possibilities that become reality.
Our cultural evolution is fueled by our creativity and founded on the vast experience and experimentation of our ancestors. They expressed themselves in words, pictures, stories, images, structures, sounds and movement, and their creations became foundations upon which we can build our own creative legacies. Seeing their images, hearing their music, and reading their stories can touch our souls and propel us forward in life.