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Featured Members
Americans for the Arts members are truly diverse – from large arts organizations to small ones; from funders to presenters; from urban centers to rural outposts. Despite their differences, they share the common goal of advancing and promoting the arts in their communities. Featured Member Projects highlights some of the many interesting and innovative means our members are using to strengthen their communities through the arts.Are you an Americans for the Arts member who would like to see your organization and project featured on this page? If so, email your story to membership@artsusa.org.
Burien/Interim Arts Space (B/ IAS)
The recent economy has affected the nation in many ways. Some of the visible signs can be seen on city blocks where development has begun on new high rise offices or condos. But once the ground has been cleared and in some cases building begins, then the money and funding runs out. The block is left as an eye sore in a community until the developer can raise enough money, or get the loans to continue building, or sells it to someone else.
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An arts organization in Oregon is making a lasting impression on teens and contributing to the future creative workforce. Caldera started 13 years ago by ad executive Dan Wieden to build up the pool of creative talent in Oregon and has turned into a year-long mentoring program for transforming the lives of underserved and at-risk youth.
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Engaging a Community and Providing Access to Arts
The Madison Arts Commission (MAC) in Madison, WI, has created a new program called Bus Lines that engages students in its community through poetry. The program encourages high school students to submit up to three original poems between three to five lines “of any subject affirming poetry and life” and is then displayed inside Metro Transit buses.
Read more »St. Louis Regional Arts Commission
Special Partnership Creates Arts Colony in Suburban Mall
For a company that’s been producing plays in a church basement, owning a theater seemed beyond its wildest dreams. But thanks to ArtSpace, an unusual new arts colony found in the most unlikely environment of a suburban mall in St. Louis, MO, Avalon Theater Company has a beautiful 100-seat black box stage that makes you think you’re at an off-Broadway production.
Read more »Maryland Citizens for the Arts
Maryland Citizens for the Arts and arts organizations across the state of Maryland are stepping up to support state employees being affected by budget revenue shortfalls which have caused statewide furlough orders from Governor Martin O'Malley. Read more »