ADVERTISEMENT Putting The Unity In Community: Crystal Bridges focuses on making art accessible Crystal Bridges focuses on making art accessible by Becca Martin-Brown | Today at 1:00 a.m. “We the People” by Nari Ward welcomes visitors to the Early American Art Galleries at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. “Ward asks us to reconsider the phrase. Has its meaning changed? Who are ‘the people’? How do these words apply to our society today?” the art label states. (Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) Marissa Reyes, who was born in Manila in the Philippines, says inclusion efforts at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art start with families and move through traditional channels like school groups to more inventive outreach with social service agencies that help bring art to the people instead of people to the art. And while cultural outreach has been part of the museum's mission since its founding in 2011, museum staff learned a great deal more on that topic during the pandemic, she adds.