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Georgia, Montana, Vermont, Virginia: Strategic Plans from Small Agencies
May 6, 2025

Georgia, Montana, Vermont, Virginia: Strategic Plans from Small Agencies

State arts agencies develop strategic plans that articulate their missions and guide their work. Each plan is informed by public input gathered from stakeholders inside and outside of the arts sector, with special care taken to reach populations with limited access to the arts. This high degree of public engagement is a hallmark of state…

Georgia: State Art Collection Tour
July 2, 2024

Georgia: State Art Collection Tour

To make art more accessible and showcase the creative talents of state artists, state arts agencies may seek new ways of sharing their state art collections, including conducting state art collection tours. These initiatives provide educational opportunities and enhance public engagement with the state arts collection, especially in rural and underserved communities. The Georgia Council…

Georgia: More than Murals
November 1, 2022

Georgia: More than Murals

Arts and cultural strategies have the potential to strengthen the social fabric of communities. In an effort to address community challenges as well as to encourage economic growth, the Georgia Council for the Arts launched the More than Murals Workshop. The pilot project was developed after noting the overwhelming response to a virtual workshop previously…

Georgia: Preventing Youth Exploitation
December 2, 2019

Georgia: Preventing Youth Exploitation

The Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) has partnered with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, the Georgia Department of Education, Wellspring Living and Street Grace to use theatre arts as an educational vehicle for prevention of the sexual exploitation of minors. The partners have joined forces to offer a $10,000 contract for the creation of…

Georgia: Conveying the Impact of the Arts
June 15, 2018

Georgia: Conveying the Impact of the Arts

Communicating the value of public support for the arts can be challenging without a common language shared by elected officials, local arts leaders, individual artists, educators and other stakeholders. The Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), acknowledging this barrier while developing its Strategic Plan 2013-2018, resolved to tell a clearer story about the arts in…

Georgia: Arts Education Campaign
December 5, 2017

Georgia: Arts Education Campaign

As school systems throughout Georgia evolve in response to implementation of state education reforms and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) sees an opportunity to increase access to arts learning in the state, which has remained static for a decade. Drawing on 25 years of research…

Georgia: Arts Learning Task Force Recommendations for Georgia
November 2, 2015

Georgia: Arts Learning Task Force Recommendations for Georgia

For the first time, Georgia has benchmark data about the availability, accessibility and quality of K-12 arts education in the state, as well as a set of recommendations for how to foster arts education and arts integration to improve students’ overall academic achievement. The Georgia Arts Learning Task Force, created by a June 2014 executive…

Georgia: Poet Laureate's Prize for High School Students
May 4, 2015

Georgia: Poet Laureate's Prize for High School Students

McPherson Newell is the winner of the 2015 Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize. Photo courtesy of McPherson Newell Georgia Council on the Arts (GCA), like many state arts agencies, supports the creation and enjoyment of poetry—and acknowledges the talent and achievement of those who commit their verse to the page—through a state…

Georgia: Innovative Approach to Capacity Building
March 10, 2014

Georgia: Innovative Approach to Capacity Building

The commitment of the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) to helping Georgia’s nonprofit arts groups realize their goals and best serve their audiences has led to an interesting partnership and funding opportunity. Through GCA’s Momentum for the Arts, 20 Georgia arts organizations will receive free capacity-building assistance over the course of two years. The…

Georgia: Tourism Product Development Grants
September 14, 2011

Georgia: Tourism Product Development Grants

Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Tourism, both divisions of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, have combined resources to offer Tourism Product Development (TPD) grants. TPD grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded in fiscal year 2012 to support the role of the arts in tourism by providing financial assistance to Georgia’s creative economies,…

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