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Message from our Board of Directors

We have come to fully recognize that Americans for the Arts can do better in delivering consistent, high quality, and mutually beneficial leadership and service as a national organization. We want to begin this recognition by offering the findings from the board commissioned Task Force for Racial and Cultural Equity.

Cultural Equity Resource Center

Americans for the Arts recognizes that many existing systems of power grant privilege and access unequally, and that equity is crucial to the long-term viability of both the arts and culture sector and communities-at-large. Our Equity Resource Center provides field tools and resources, webinars and e-learning, leadership development, and more crucial information for the field as we work to ensure equal access to a full, vibrant creative life.

A photo of a protest at the foot of a large public art monument. In the foreground a protestor holds up a sign that reads "Racism is a pandemic too."
Photo: James Eades on Unsplash.

Case Study: Equity in Grantmaking

Learn how MAP Fund is incorporating Animating Democracy’s Aesthetic Perspectives framework to help mitigate aesthetic bias in proposal review, and what an evaluation revealed, in a case study published by Animating Democracy in collaboration with the MAP Fund.

COVID-19 Resource + Response Center

Americans for the Arts cares about the health and safety of our members, stakeholders, staff, and board in communities across the country, and we understand that health, work, and travel require personal decisions that individuals must make for themselves. We frequently our COVID Resource Center to help you navigate to information more quickly.

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There is greater strength in numbers. Strategic partnerships are crucial to Americans for the Arts because they champion an idea that is central to our day-to-day work: the arts are a vital tool—a “secret weapon”—that can address wide-ranging challenges across sectors and from every corner of our country.

Together, we can strengthen arts in the economy, in schools, in communities, in the military, in our healthcare system, and more. Our list of partners is as extensive as our scope of work. Learn more about Americans for the Arts’ strategic partnerships.

National Arts Awards
Celebrating outstanding leadership in the arts, arts education and philanthropy

BCA 10 Awards
Top businesses partnering with the arts in America

Policy Roundtables
Cross-sector forums imagining and strategizing the future of the arts

Artists Committee
Leading artists advocating on behalf of the arts

Regional Events
Special events to connect with other leaders in the arts community

Our staff at Americans for the Arts are leaders in the arts industry. We are here for you, and available to serve as guest lecturers, keynotes, panelists, conveners, session leaders, reviewers, policy experts, and writers, wherever we’re needed.

Presentations can be targeted toward arts, government, business, education, or combined community audiences at the local, state, and national levels. We present research with key insights and put local results in a national context.

Visit the speakers bureau to learn more.

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