Arts, Health and Well-Being: Cross-Sector Partnerships

September 24, 2024
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern

State arts agencies develop initiatives to leverage the positive impact of the arts on health and well-being. They form strategic partnerships with health-sector agencies and nonprofit organizations to strengthen social connections, build resilience, aid in healing from trauma and extend the benefits of the arts to all residents. To learn more about these partnerships, join colleagues from the South Carolina Arts Commission, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) for a session that takes place as NASAA releases a new Arts, Health and Community Well-Being Strategy Sampler. Highlighting exemplary state level arts and health partnerships across the country, the strategy sampler will be available in advance of the upcoming application deadline for Partnership Agreement grants for the new NEA Arts, Health and Well-Being Pilot opportunity for state arts agencies. NEA representatives will be on hand to answer questions.

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Building Capacity for Disaster Readiness

September 11, 2024
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

From severe weather conditions to technology failure to unspeakable violence, unexpected circumstances can cause devastating loss for communities and the organizations that serve them. State arts agencies have a vital role in helping their communities and constituents right the ship after disaster strikes. Join NASAA and the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response for a session focused on how you can position your agency as a helper, not a burden, in a crisis situation by building capacity and relationships.

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Changing Audience Trends

July 31, 2024
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

The way people interact with and consume the arts has changed drastically over the past five years. This is particularly the case when it comes to performing arts. It is harder to get people up and out of their houses to live events, but easier than ever to reach them through virtual platforms. This session looks at audience and engagement trends and delves into the driving forces that are changing the performing arts landscape.

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Investing in Accessibility and Disabled Artists

June 26, 2024
3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Eastern

As arts leaders, state arts agencies and regional arts organizations have an opportunity to invest in disability equity through grant making for disabled artists, accessibility efforts and capital funding. Join representatives from state arts agencies, regional arts organizations and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to learn about successful models for investing in people with disabilities through grant making for artists and cultural organizations. The NEA also shares best practices for accessible grant making, including recruiting and accommodating grant panelists with disabilities and ensuring the accessibility of grant application portals and grant management systems.

VIDEO | SPEAKERS | NEA PRESENTATION | NEA HANDBOOK FOR SAA AND RAO ACCESSIBILITY COORDINATORS

Assessing Grant-Making Outcomes and Community Reach

May 30, 2024
3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Eastern

Through their enabling legislation, state arts agencies are entrusted with making the arts accessible to everyone in their state. Grant making is an important tool in that mission. Assessing grant programs to determine actual impacts, populations reached and accessibility for under-resourced communities becomes imperative. Join a panel of your peers to discover a variety of the latest assessment approaches and how state arts agencies are acting on what’s learned.

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Resilience and Growth: The Value of Creative Economies

April 30, 2024
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

Join NASAA and experts from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab at Indiana University Indianapolis to hear the latest facts illustrating how cultural production drives economic growth and strengthens economic resiliency. We’ll dig into just-released data from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, published by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and discuss the findings from Arts and Creativity Drive Economies and Build Resilience, a new report commissioned by NASAA.

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What Is AI and How Does It Affect the Arts?

March 27, 2024
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

This interactive session provides state arts agencies with an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI), including the more recent “generative AI” applications such as text and image generation. It covers some of the opportunities and risks of AI in society and touches on controversies and debates specific to the arts, as well as artists’ use of AI technologies.

The session features artist and AI expert  Sarah W. Newman, director of art & education at the metaLAB at Harvard in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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