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...Press is part of the Cultural Agents Initiative, a project which advocates for active humanities, and of which Sommer is the Faculty Director. “What we’re saying here is that the humanities are a field that can create and promote effective interventions, because it trains and promotes judgments and an exercise of possibilities. Most humanists would be averse to thinking of the humanities as a field for preparing you for other things—that the humanities should be fixed on purposelessness, on disinterested art. The whole mission of Cultural Agents... is about reviving, linking...
...Press believes that the concepts and skills one can develop by actively using the humanities are necessary for civic engagement, mirroring part of the mission of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts. “Giving people outside of Harvard an understanding that the arts are vehicles of exploration is a way of underlying the importance of arts in the development of the curriculum. All of the issues that the Arts Task Force are communicating come alive in an immediate and practical way with the Paper Picker Press. Arts become a way of interpreting, exploring, rehearsing ethics...
...doing so, the Press demonstrates that “our partners outside of the university are quite as sophisticated as our partners inside,” Sommer says. “To show people that they’re already sophisticated or can be, just by making art, is part of the bridge that we’re making with the community. It’s not top-down. It’s really reciprocal...
...everyone helps each other out to get these billions of shows done with a very small group of technicians,” she says. “It’s been a very positive experience for me, both from the community that I’ve become a part of as well as an artistic outlet...
...part of it is teaching [the artists] how to market themselves and their work,” Schapiro adds. “It helps artists understand that they can pursue a career in the visual arts, and gives them the tools to do that effectively right after graduation...