WHEREAS,  summer arts festivals in the State serve as centers of creativity and craftsmanship, inspiration and enrichment; and

WHEREAS,  summer arts festivals attract residents and nonresidents alike to participate in Maine's creative economy, helping towns and communities throughout the State; and

WHEREAS,  summer arts festivals promote arts and crafts and a sense of community as they also entertain and educate; and

WHEREAS,  the arts are a universal language transcending borders and conflicts and informing individual and collective identities; now, therefore, be it