Americans for the Arts

The 99 Percent Arts

Robert Bettmann | Posted 05.14.2012

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The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system.

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LOOK: Baldwin, Other Celebrities Head To Capitol Hill To Press Arts Funding Cause

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts. Baldwin and o...

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Helping Artists Become Artists

Agnes Gund | Posted 02.18.2012

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One of the mysteries of the arts is how an artist becomes an artist. We know that very few trained and talented visual artists actually make careers in the arts. Seeing all of this for so long I am encouraged by some positive trends.

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Art Prevails Where Our Government Fails

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Americans for the Arts, Politics, Over a River, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Financial Crisis, Congress, Robert Lynch, Solyndra, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

Christo and Jean Claude, two immigrant Americans, are showing the nation the vitality of its arts and the creative process in not only enhancing our lives, but also as a tool for economic development and well being.

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More Artists, Less Money: Can They Adapt To The Recession?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.07.2012

This is the first in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture: The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about it here. Despite...

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Americans for the Arts Talks Creativity

John M. Eger | Posted 08.20.2011

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Paraphrasing the last line of the Declaration of Independence, Shriver said all of us need to "pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" that the cuts to art education cannot be tolerated.

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Arts Advocates Come Knocking on the Doors of Congress

Robert L. Lynch | Posted 06.19.2011

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There are stories that all of us in the arts have: of the arts changing a child's life; humanizing a hospital; and revitalizing a rural or urban downtown. The arts are not part of the problem but part of the solution to America's problems.

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Hyundai 'Cures' Cramps, For A Cause

Alyssa Jung | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have you ever groaned as you exit a car? You know, grunted as you swing one stiff leg onto the asphalt and utter a hefty "ughh" as the rest of your bo...

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The President's Address and the National Endowment for the Arts

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The National Endowment for the Arts is as important to this nation -- its spirit, its sense of self -- as any other of our Government departments and agencies. It is long past time that this be recognized.

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The Arts as an International Force for Change

Robert L. Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sundance Institute, US State Department, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Americans for the Arts, National Arts Policy Roundtable, Bronx Museum of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Robert Redford, Arts News

World governments are increasingly excited about the economic power of the arts and the value of cultural exchange in a changing world.

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Taking Action for Arts Education: Charles Segars

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Segars, Chair of the Campaign to Save Arts Education for LAUSD, spoke with ForYourArt about arts advocacy after his testimony in support of the measure to appropriate $180 million for the NEA.

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This Week In Art: Can You Measure the Value of Art?

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Perhaps MOCA's decision to think "out of the box" and hire someone from the commercial art world addresses the real financial perils faced by many nonprofits today.

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Obama, the Arts, and Soft Power

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have always been struck by the paucity of interest and support our government gives to the arts. In Obama's opinion it appears the arts have become essential to reengage our standing in the world.

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Part II - Why Arts Education is a Matter of Social Justice and Why it will Save the World

Lucia Brawley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Ganz, Americans for the Arts, Obama Education, Mike Huckabee, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, Politics News

Culture has always been among America's greatest exports. And, "The arts can be life-saving and life-affirming for young people who have been discarded by the culture."

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Arts Community to Obama: Here's What We're Fighting For

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 11.17.2011

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We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.

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