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Today, April 13, is Arts Advocacy Day featuring a conference in Washington DC and meetings with Congress members. For those not in DC there is plenty you can do to help spread the message. First is Tweet Arts Day; add #arts to your tweets to increase awareness! You can also learn more about Arts Read more.. http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/arts_index/001.asp#report Ballooning non-profit arts organizations in combo with declining attendance, ticket sales, donor dollars equals bad math. This is why the focus must be on growing our circle of friends – awareness, engagement – it’s tough to do. Doing so is a long-term investment with little immediate gratification (or metrics!) for the dollar spent; Read more.. Every year, The Washington State Arts Alliance holds “Arts Day” down at our capitol, encouraging arts members to come down to Olympia and meet our legislators and learn more about their process. Further, it’s a chance for us to show our lawmakers how important artists and the arts are to Washington. In the past, WSAA has advocated for issues such as increasing the number of days that non-profit facilities can be rented to for-profit organizations, extension of lodging taxes for the arts, and inclusion of arts as a core subject in state education reform. The WSAA seeks volunteers to attend appointments with legislators to thank them for their support and discuss the current issues facing artists in this state. Help make a difference, and email Linda Rabadi Fair at lindar@empsfm.org or 206-262-3261. Press release is below: Change is afoot in Seattle, as the latest election brought in a new mayor, Mike McGinn, as well as a new King County Executive, Dow Constantine. The Washington State Arts Alliance is presenting a reception for arts advocates to meet with McGinn and Constantine at The Paramount Read more.. Theatre Communications Group, a national advocacy group for non-profit theatres, has released their annual “fiscal pulse” survey which included responses from over 465 non-profit groups around the U.S. There were some interesting results, and 23 groups in Washington state responded – good job, guys! In one of the questions, 78% of theatre groups have Read more.. Arts were not a big priority in the mayoral campaigns for Mike McGinn or Joe Mallahan until recently; with over 21,000 professional arts workers in the city (according to The Stranger‘s Brendan Kiley,) the community has stressed to them the importance of a thriving arts scene. Seattle Channel’s C.R. Douglas met with both candidates Read more.. You may not know it, but the Washington State Arts Alliance has been fighting for you for 33 years. Created to advocate awareness and public support for the arts in Washington, they represent every faction of the art at local, regional, statewide, even nationwide levels. This is definitely a group to support. Membership starts Read more.. |
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