Ethics and the Arts

"All art requires courage" (Anne Tucker)

Ethics and the Arts Spring 2011 Newsletter

Ethics & the Arts Initiative Press Kit

This courage is required of both the creator of the art and the viewer of the work. The courage required to create and to engage with art can be used as momentum for moving forward in addressing the issues found within art.

The Emory University Center for Ethics announces its 2010 Ethics & the Arts Initiative. The goal of Ethics & the Arts is to encourage ethical dialogue and debate through and about the arts, and to partner with signature Atlanta Community organizations to demonstrate the way art challenges our perspectives. The production of art, its role in public conversation, its preservation, and its presentation all provoke us to confront ethical challenges, sometimes in startling new ways. The Center for Ethics sees art as central to its mission to Igniting the Moral Imagination of 21^st Century Leaders.^TM

Ethics & the Arts Initiative

To establish a platform for multidisciplinary artistic expression Emory University campus
To Partner with key constituents in order to include the Atlanta Community
To educate students, visitors, stakeholders, and faculty about the role of arts social change
To teach and promote Atlanta high culture to the Emory Community, visiting students groups, Atlanta public schools, and other Universities.
To build bridges in music, painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, film in order to reach new generations
To highlight art as a fundamental vehicle for ethical inquiry and social change.
To support artists trying to encourage ethical conversation with their art, such as Carlton Mackey, a Center for Ethics staff member and winner of a Center for Creativity and the Arts grant to co-produce the film, 17 Degrees Ain't Nothing.

The Ethics & the Arts Initiative includes:

The Ethics Art Café

Ethics @ the Movies

Testaments of the Heart

Rotating Art Exhibits

Permanent Art Collection

Creativity and Arts Programming

Ethics & the Arts
Undergraduate Society

Community Partnerships with the
Woodruff Arts Center, Alliance
Theater, HBO Documentary Films, WonderRoot, VDay Atlanta and others