If there was ever a time in which we need to reach for alternatives, it is now. The planet is heating up. Every year is hotter than the year before it. We started this year with the Australian bushfires—fires so hot that they even stained the skies here. We are facing ecological collapse and the mass extinction of species, and all of this layered with the COVID crisis and deepening poverty. The powers that hold this power in place seem inevitable, but I am reminded of the words of the writer Ursula Le Guin when she said, "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art." Artists help us to dream about what could be and what might be and help us to consider unexpected perspectives. I want to acknowledge all the poets, the writers, the dancers, visual artists, carvers, the singers and composers, and those who defy definition because of the very nature of who they are. I know this personally about artists because I married one.