The state’s leading arts and culture advocacy organization providing vision, leadership, and resources to ensure the growth, prosperity and sustainability of arts and culture in Georgia!
Georgians for the Arts
The state’s leading arts and culture advocacy organization providing vision, leadership, and resources to ensure the growth, prosperity and sustainability of arts and culture in Georgia!
Americans for the Arts is hosting a webinar, Advocacy 201, on April 25 to advance arts advocacy. It features leaders from Massachusetts, California, and Kentucky, focusing on legislative priorities for National Arts Advocacy Zoom-In Week scheduled for May 13-17, 2024. The training will help participants prepare for effective virtual advocacy from home.
The 2024 Georgia Arts Day featured impressive presentations emphasizing the impact of the arts and their socioeconomic benefits. Venue partner The Center for Puppetry Arts hosted the event, shining a light on diverse audiences and public art success. Keynote speaker Randy Cohen provided insights on the arts’ social advantages, and discussions centered on forging relationships with policymakers for the arts’ prosperity. Contributors such as the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta facilitated the event’s success.
Georgia’s first Arts and Economic Prosperity report reveals that the state’s arts sector, with a $29.2 billion impact, supports 19,734 jobs and attracts 16.6 million attendees to events. Advocates are urged to contact House and Senate Representatives to increase funding for the Georgia Council for the Arts. Actions include messaging legislators, contacting the Creative Arts and Entertainment Committee, and visiting the Arts Action Center to bolster the lucrative industry.
Take quick action and send your State House Representative a request that they support HB 1265. HB 1265 will allow you to elect all or part of your state tax refund to be dedicated to helping to provide additional funding to the Georgia Council for the Arts starting in 2025.. . .
After weeks of negotiations and months of collective advocacy by arts advocates, Congressional appropriators unveiled their FY 2023 omnibus appropriations package to fund the federal government for next year. Please take a few minutes to thank your congressional members for supporting the arts in America and urge them to vote for the final passage of this major legislation as soon as possible.
The Georgia Legislature approved legislation for the production of a license plate highlighting the arts and to provide financial benefits to the Georgia Council for the Arts. If a “Support The Arts” license plate was available, would you purchase it?
Americans for the Arts, October 20. On Monday, unexpectedly, Senate Appropriations Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) released the texts of 9 of the appropriations bills, as a way of kick-starting some activity around them. Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Leahy are negotiating how to advance the bills further in the Senate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Artist known as Alexis Smith Thomason (formerly Mieke) became interested in art at the age of four. Her mother brought her a set of Prang Watercolors after she showed precocious tendencies in art when she was a child—and she has been painting ever since! She spent a great deal. . .
Georgia Music Partners (a Georgia not-for-profit 501(c)(6) corporation) exists because we believe that music matters to the people of Georgia – in our communities, in our schools, and in our economy.
For 39-years, the mission of the Coastal Jazz Association (DBA Savannah Jazz) has been: To promote, present, preserve and perpetuate the art form known as Jazz through a series of community and regional events, programs, and activities.