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  • 2020 Cultural Capitol (Atlanta, Fulton County)
    Georgians for the Arts Presents CULTURAL CAPITOL 2020:  A Celebration Of Georgia’s Arts And Culture Tuesday, January 21, 2020, from 12 – 4 p.m. The Rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334 Savannah, Georgia.   On January 21, 2020, from 12 – 4 p.m., Georgians. . .
  • 2023 Georgia Legislative Session Preview
    On Thursday, December 15, 2023, Georgians for the Arts hosted a free roundtable previewing 2023 State legislation affecting arts and culture.
  • Chatham County Proclaims October 2022 as Arts and Humanities Month (Chatham County)
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Savannah Mayor Proclaims October 2022 as Arts and Humanities Month (Savannah, Chatham County)
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Georgia Governor Kemp Proclaims October 2022 as Georgia Arts and Humanities Month
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • 2020 Elections
    Georgians for the Arts asked all Georgia Senatorial candidates to provide their arts and culture-related platform statements. These questionnaires or requests for a candidate’s platform related to arts and culture provide an opportunity for candidates to inform voters where they stand on advancing the arts and culture.
  • 2022 Georgia Arts Action Summit (Online)
  • Arts on Fire (Douglasville, Douglas County)
    In 2017, the Cultural Arts Council Douglasville/ Douglas County created its first public art initiative in a community where there was no public art. The purpose of public art is not only to enrich the community and improve our quality of life through its ability to enrich an environment, but also to ignite the imagination, encourage thought, and to prompt discourse.
  • Savannah Mayor Proclaims October as Arts and Humanities Month (Savannah, Chatham County)
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Governor Kemp Proclaims October as Arts and Humanities Month (Georgia))
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Chatham County Proclaims October as Arts and Humanities Month (Chatham County)
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Macon Mayor proclaims October as Arts and Humanities Month (Macon, Bibb County)
    Arts and Humanities Month celebrates access to the arts at local, state, and national levels, encouraging individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in the arts, offering opportunities for local leaders to show their support of the arts, and raising public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives.
  • Celebrate Arts and Humanities Month!
    October is National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)—a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America. NAHM was launched by Americans for the Arts more than 30 years ago as National Arts Week in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • 2021 Elections
  • Greater Augusta ArtsCity Festival / Sept. 17-19, 2021 (Augusta, Richmond County)
    ArtsCity Festival is a mini version of the popular Arts in the Heart Festival and will be held on September 17, 18, 19, 2021 in Augusta, GA. ArtsCity Festival will still offer great music on two stages, over 80 juried fine artists booths and ten international food booths with authentic. . .
  • 2021 National Arts Action Summit
  • 2021 GA Economic Impact Fact Sheet Released
    The Arts Action Fund released an updated “Why the Arts Matter in Georgia” Fact Sheet for 2021. The Fact Sheets summarize the full impact the arts have on Georgia; it serves as an excellent advocacy tool to share with supporters and policy-makers throughout the state.
  • 2021 Georgia Arts Action Summit
  • Arts Advocacy Regional Roundtable (Macon, Bibb County)
     by Julie Wilkerson On Monday, September 16, ArtsGeorgia and the Macon Arts Alliance hosted the first in a series of regional Arts Advocacy Roundtables at the Mill Hill Community Arts Center in Macon for a discussion about local, state and national arts advocacy related topics. The local arts and business. . .
  • Arts Advocacy Roundtable – 2019
    ArtsGeorgia convened the 2019 Arts Advocacy Roundtable along with our co-hosts, C4 Atlanta, the Arts & Culture Alliance of Chatham County and the United Arts Front at the Woodruff Arts Center in June 2019. This latest roundtable included advocates from Atlanta, Columbus, Decatur, Macon, Marietta, Milledgeville, Rome and Savannah, plus. . .
  • Arts Advocacy Roundtable – 2018
    ArtsGeorgia convened the first Arts Advocacy Roundtable at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) in June 2018. Representatives from Georgia’s arts and culture nonprofits with active advocacy programs from the Atlanta-Metro area, and from as far away as Savannah were at the table. Members from ArtsGeorgia, C4. . .