One of my favorite artists Eric Fischl founded the organization, America Now and Here. It's sort of a traveling art festival with participants from every artistic genre. I think its awesome and I signed up to be apart of it, hopefully they can come to a city near Rutgers! Even though we live in a era of constant communication due to facebook, twitter and other social media sites, I feel they have made us more cut off from each other than ever. This mobile upload culture has forced us to communicate less in person than on the computer. An event like America Now and Here brings people together to talk about our culture, spread ideas and become more active members of our society! Check it out: http://americanowandhere.org/