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Why do the arts matter for democracy, and what happens to democracy when art disappears? Members of the Wellesley community gathered in the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall auditorium October 6 to hear answers to these pressing questions during this year’s combined Caroline A. Wilson ’10 and Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture, which took the form of a discussion between Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, and Emily Wei Rales ’98, director and co-founder of the contemporary art museum Glenstone.
Why do the arts matter for democracy, and what happens to democracy when art disappears? Members of the Wellesley community gathered in the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall auditorium October 6 to hear answers to these pressing questions during this year’s combined Caroline A. Wilson ’10 and Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture, which took the form of a discussion between Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, and Emily Wei Rales ’98, director and co-founder of the contemporary art museum Glenstone.
