The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) has initiated a series of free arts education webinars. The series began with a session designed to help constituents apply to PCA for teacher-artist partnership and long-term residency funding. Because these two grant categories recently were opened to all school districts across the state, PCA used the webinar…
The Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) is offering a special series of learning events designed to help arts organizations understand and adapt to changing audiences and shifts in public arts participation. Activating Your Audience was led by nationally recognized researcher and consultant Alan Brown of WolfBrown. A forum, two workshops and a webinar all focused…
AIM for the Panhandle is a multiyear project of Shands Arts in Medicine program, supported by Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (FDCA), the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Florida Center for the Arts in Healthcare. The project is designed to create a working model for arts in health care programs in…
A new capacity-building initiative of the Oregon Arts Commission (OAC) is concerned with how arts organizations of Oregon can be stronger, effective and more nimble as they move into the future. Based on the findings of an arts organization self-assessment project that OAC worked on with the TCC Group, the Commission secured new funding through…
The Arkansas Arts Council (AAC) has recently published an Online Social Networking Guide to provide nonprofit arts organizations with information about the current climate of social networking and media. The guide explains the basic language and demographics of some of the most widely used on-line sites and includes cost‐benefit analyses to guide decision making for…
The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is working with the Texas Travel Industry Association to present a series of tourism development workshops. The series, Saddle Up! Rein in the Power of Tourism for Your Community, running from June 2009 until November 2009, will share the latest information and strategies to help Texas communities build…
The Artists’ Ventures Initiative of the South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) is dedicated to improving conditions for South Carolina artists by helping them develop the knowledge and skills to build satisfying, sustainable careers. In response to input from artists across the state, the Arts Commission is offering artist gatherings, business training and start-up support for…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts, in partnership with the Virginia Alliance of Local Arts Agencies, Virginia Main Street Program, Virginia Municipal League and The Arts & Cultural Council of Rappahannock, is sponsoring a statewide leadership conference for creating arts and cultural districts in communities across Virginia. The Virginia state legislature recently amended existing legislation…
In April, the Missouri Arts Council (MAC) sponsored the state’s first Arts Summit. Held simultaneously at seven sites throughout the state, the summit provided representatives of the state’s arts organizations with the opportunity to learn valuable and cost-effective ways to deal with the economic climate. The event afforded participants opportunities to network, discuss potential collaborations,…
Indiana Artisan is a joint venture by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. The collaboration is designed to support artisans and handmade products and attract visitors to individual artisan sites and arts-concentrated areas in the state.…
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