How is human meaning generated through cultural creations?

The enduring relevance of the humanities is that they encourage us to consider a number of “big ideas.” What is culture? How do we go about studying it? What
is the relationship between cultural artifacts and the culture in which they are created? Between artists and the creators of cultural artifacts and the things they
create? How is human meaning generated through cultural creations? We humans seem driven to express and create in our search to understand and be
understood.