Presidential Documents

62295 

Federal Register 

Vol. 75, No. 195 

Friday, October 8, 2010 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 8571 of October 1, 2010 

National Arts and Humanities Month, 2010 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women 

around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come 

to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, 

the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines 

us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate 

our Nation’s arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans 

can access and experience them. 

Our strength as a Nation has always come from our ability to recognize 

ourselves in each other, and American artists, historians, and philosophers 

have helped enable us to find our common humanity. Through powerful 

scenes on pages, canvases, and stages, the arts have spurred our imaginations, 

lifted our hearts, and united us all without regard to belief or background. 

The arts and humanities have also helped fuel our economy as well as 

our souls. Across our country, men and women in the non-profit and forprofit arts industries bring arts and cultural activities to our communities, 

contributing tens of billions of dollars to our economy each year. Today, 

arts workers are revitalizing neighborhoods, attracting new visitors, and fostering growth in places that have gone too long without it. 

As we work to bring the power of the arts and humanities to all Americans, 

my Administration remains committed to providing our children with an 

education that inspires as it informs. Exposing our students to disciplines 

in music, dance, drama, design, writing, and fine art is an important part 

of that mission. To promote arts education and pay tribute to America’s 

vibrant culture, First Lady Michelle Obama and I have been proud to host 

a White House Music Series, Dance Series, and Poetry Jam. We have been 

honored to bring students, workshops, and performers to ‘‘the People’s 

House;’’ to highlight jazz, country, Latin, and classical music; and to invite 

Americans to listen to the music of the civil rights movement, hip-hop, 

and Broadway. 

By supporting the fields that feed our imagination, strengthen our children’s 

education, and contribute to our economy, our country will remain a center 

of creativity and innovation, and our society will stand as one where dreams 

can be realized. As we reflect on the contributions of America’s artists, 

we look forward to hearing their tales still untold, their perspectives still 

unexplored, and their songs still unwritten. May they continue to shed 

light on trials and triumphs of the human spirit, and may their work help 

ensure that our children’s horizons are ever brighter. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2010 as 

National Arts and Humanities Month. I call upon the people of the United 

States to join together in observing this month with appropriate ceremonies, 

activities, and programs to celebrate the arts and the humanities in America. 


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62296 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 195 / Friday, October 8, 2010 / Presidential Documents 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of 

October, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten, and of the Independence 

of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25571 

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