Assembly 2018: A Time to Celebrate! NASAA Assembly 2018, November 1-3 in Baltimore, Maryland, is about enhancing your skills, learning best practices and networking with your peers, sure—but it’s also about celebration! NASAA turns 50 this year, and we are thrilled to spread the joy with our devoted members by way of a masquerade and…
A Peek at Assembly Peer Discussions At every NASAA conference, members have an opportunity to meet at Peer Sessions with others who have similar responsibilities. These gatherings of job-alike groups of state arts agency staff and council members are invaluable in offering information and providing a forum for shared challenges and successes. Draft Peer Session…
Assembly 2018 Sessions Designed to Enrich & Inform NASAA has designed an exceptional program of substantive learning sessions for state arts agency staff and council members at Assembly 2018, November 1-3 in Baltimore. Discuss how arts advocates can advance civility and bridge divides. Get coached on your media communication skills and get pointers on branding…
Deadline Approaching: 2018 NASAA Awards Nominations The deadline for NASAA’s 2018 Leadership Awards is fast approaching! Nominations for the Distinguished Public Service Award and the Gary Young Award are due Friday, July 20. Don’t miss this chance to honor an outstanding state arts agency executive director, chair or council member. Please visit NASAA’s 2018…
Register for NASAA Assembly 2018 Come one, come all—SAA and RAO staff and council members, that is—to NASAA Assembly 2018! Join your state arts agency and regional arts organization colleagues in Baltimore, Maryland, November 1-3. Our conference is focused on issues important to you, such as managing political polarization, the future of arts and technology,…
South Carolina’s Janae Claxton Is Poetry Out Loud National Champion Rising to the top of a field of 300,000 students from 2,300 schools across the country, South Carolina high school senior Janae Claxton was named 2018 Poetry Out Loud National Champion in April. The title earned Claxton, who attends First Baptist School of Charleston, a $20,000…
You Count on NASAA and NASAA Counts on You You can count on NASAA when you need reliable, customized data, fact based information or a confidential sounding board. You can also count on NASAA to make sure your interests are heard in Washington, D.C.—to protect the National Endowment for the Arts and ensure that 40%…
NASAA’s New Creative Economy State Profiles Creative Economy State Profiles is a new NASAA tool that enables state level explorations of the economic impact of the arts. The interactive dashboard, produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts, uses fresh data drawn from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account published by the…
Be a Champion for the Arts in 2018 2018 is going to be another big year for the arts. You can help your state arts agency get the support it needs to advance the arts with a monthly gift to NASAA. Whether it’s $10 or $50, your monthly gift provides us with support we can…
We Did It—Thank You! Because of your generosity, NASAA met our year-end fundraising goal! We raised $25,000 by December 31, which means we’ll receive a $25,000 matching grant from the Windgate Foundation. That’s $50,000 for NASAA! Many, many thanks to all of our supporters who made this happen. Individual support will help NASAA in 2018…