As advocates, we see that arts education is an antidote to the narrow curricula, rote memorization and overreliance on high-stakes testing that leave too many teachers questioning their calling, and too many students unseen. Whats more, young people who study the arts consistently demonstrate higher levels of empathy, social tolerance and civic engagement. Painting and ceramics, music and dance, photography and filmthese arent merely hobbies; they are some of humankinds most liberating pathways to creativity and catharsis. President-elect Biden should heed the call to appoint a Secretary of Arts and Culture, who can help ensure that building back better means building back room for creative self-expression. Anyone whos stood before an ancient sculpture and felt wonder, or listened to a piece of classical music and felt peace, or gazed at a Renaissance painting and experienced the sublime grasps the power of art to transmit emotion across the ages.
Nothing could beat an Art apart from a painting.
( z0 possible :ARG1 ( z1 beat :ARG0 ( z2 nothing ) :ARG1 ( z3 art ) :ARG2-of ( z4 except :ARG1 ( z5 paint ) ) ) )
(z0 / possible-01
    :ARG1 (z1 / beat-03
              :ARG0 (z2 / nothing)
              :ARG1 (z3 / art)
              :ARG2-of (z4 / except-01
                           :ARG1 (z5 / paint-02))))
Nothing could beat an Art apart from a painting .
z0 :ARG1 z1
z1 :ARG0 z2
z1 :ARG1 z3
z1 :ARG2-of z4
z4 :ARG1 z5