Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., of Harvard University, spoke about the importance of arts education in elementary schools during the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference at Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on May 6, 2009. This link provides his prepared remarks. The report Learning, Arts, and the Brain was announced the same day as the California Arts Council’s 2008 statewide arts conference, and attendees received some of the first copies made available to the public.