Art for the masses

Declining audience numbers are a wake-up call to American arts institutions that the communities they serve are changing-and to stay in business they have to stay relevant.

Grammy award winning jazz singer Dianne Reeves says sharing songs and poetry helped ease racial tensions as she was growing up in the United States at a time when segregation was coming to an end.

Actor and graphic artist Archie Villeda spent his high school years immersed in theater, after seeing a production of a vaudeville-style satire featuring people who looked like him onstage.