Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities, addressed arts leaders and Representative Suzanne Bonamici, highlighting how arts foster community and democracy. He urged the federal government to acknowledge the significance of cultural policies. Following this, Oregon Humanities, along with the Federation of State Humanities Councils, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Department of Governmental Efficiency and the National Endowment for the Humanities to restore terminated funding and protect the federal-state partnership essential for facilitating humanities programs.
"What knits our communities together is the opportunity to hear each other, to hear differences of opinion, to understand how we're different and how we're similar, and that's what builds the ground on which democracy can grow."
"What we're asking for at this time is for the [federal] government to take its own words seriously . . . to recognize the importance not only of policy, but of culture."
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