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Photographer Carrie Mae Weems went on to do graduate work in Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley after she acquired her Master of Fine Arts degree.

Three-year Study at Seven Major Universities Finds Strong Links Between Arts Education and Cognitive Development

THE DANA FOUNDATION | BY BARBARA RICH & CAROLYN ASBURY

Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released today at a news conference at the Dana Foundation’s Washington, DC headquarters, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?

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"For centuries the Phoenicians alone possessed the secret of the manufacture of purple. ... The Roman emperors transferred the manufacture of purple to Italy and conducted it as a monopoly. The art of purple dying, which, like many of the arts, had reached a high level at this time, was lost almost completely in the stormy period which marked the migration of nations. For a short time the art was still preserved in the Byzantine Empire, only to become extinct there in the 12th Century."

Josef Maria Eder, Edward Epstean, and Hinricus Lüppo-Cramer, HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1945).

Three-year Study at Seven Major Universities Finds Strong Links Between Arts Education and Cognitive Development

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