Technology and the need for new skills are shifting the workforce -- requiring workers to be more creative and demanding culturally competent and innovative thinkers who are prepared to solve new global problems. Advocates for STEAM education -- the intersection of science, technology, engineering, arts and math -- believe it builds the habits of mind for life and work in the 21st century. In late 2018, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) launched new work investigating policies and practices in STEAM education. To date, the work has produced a landscape analysis of state polices that include STEAM education, including those related to access, funding and coordination of state leadership. This work revealed that states are just beginning to include the arts in STEM policies and that more questions than answers exist. To address these questions, AEP and Education Commission of the States convened 14 leaders to look beyond current state policy and explore new opportunities in STEAM. Conversations at this Thinkers Meeting focused on the perspectives of researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Collectively, the group considered questions to guide future practice, research and policy work: (1) What unique value do the arts bring to STEM and STEM to the arts? (2) What is the workforce rationale for STEAM skills? and (3) What are the policy opportunities to support arts learning in STEM? This report highlights the Thinkers Meeting participants' conversations and insights.