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Newly updated in Spring 2012   PDF of Useful Quotes for Arts Advocates Advocacy Tip: A quote from an elected official representing your district or your community’s mayor, or a local business leader can be a smart, effecti...more

Connect with Your State's Arts Advocacy Organizations and Initiatives     Alabama Alabama Alliance for Arts Education Alaska Alaska Arts Education Consortium Inc. Arizona Arizona Citizens/Action for t...more

This publication of the Arts Education Partnership describes the benefits of arts education based on new research published by the Arts Education Partnership. It can be used for many advocacy purposes. (2006 - brochure) Making a Case for the Arts...more

The NAMM Foundation along with a wide range of partners release its annual survey of the best communities for music education. Click here to view the press release and see the list, which as expected, is almost all suburbs. Anyone want to see ...more

Why the Popular STEM Acronym (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Should be Converted to STEAM, Adding Arts Future Leaders Need Arts Education by John Eger, as published in the San Diego Business Journal and reblogged on HASTAC Ege...more

In an easy-to-replicate example of outreach and relationship building with the business community, the California Alliance for Arts Education is featuring a guest blogger on its website--Chris Cochran, the head of Community Affairs for Stone Bre...more

This anticipated anthology of 20 voices in the arts is now available. The book strives for new thinking as the contributors present varying visions for the future of the arts. The project has been initiated and led by Edward Clapp, a doctoral student...more

"Teach for America is building the movement to eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the efforts." Like many performing arts organizations, Teach for America battles perceptions...more

  Mike Huckabee is arguably one of the most vocal Republican advocates for the arts and arts education in the United States. With that in mind, I set out to find out how former Governor Huckabee became such an ardent arts advocate in the hope...more

  Photo caption: Nina Ozlu Tunceli, Executive Director, Americans for the Arts Action Fund and Chief Counsel of Government and Public Affairs for Americans for the Arts Posted on the Arts Action Fund of Americans for the Arts website ...more