Programs
Convening
Animating Democracy periodically sponsors presentations, workshops and learning exchanges focused on arts- and humanities-based civic engagement and dialogue. Learn about:
- Upcoming Animating Democracy convenings
- The National Exchange on Art & Civic Dialogue, October 2003
- Past Learning Exchange reports
Animating Democracy's Project Profile Database
Find profiles of a wide range of projects that demonstrate the capacity of the arts and humanities to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary civic issues and features over 30 case studies from the Animating Democracy Lab and connect with the Americans for the Arts’ National Arts Policy Database.
Animating Democracy Lab
From 1999 to 2003, Americans for Arts’ Animating Democracy Lab provided grants
and advisory support to 32 cultural organizations across the country to implement
projects that experimented with or deepened existing approaches to arts- and
humanities-based civic dialogue. Investigation through these diverse projects,
individually and collectively, aimed to advance field learning about the philosophical,
practical, and social dimensions of this work. Learn about the Initiative and
the Lab projects.