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Los Angeles Times - Culture Monster April 13, 2010  The United States government should start thinking of the arts as a tool, if not exactly a weapon, in the nation's military campaigns and diplomatic initiatives, a recently retired ...more

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

Performing arts organizations might be interested in an initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts that offers free admission to over 700 museums this summer. This goodwill gesture could be a smart advocacy move to reach out...more

An interesting policy discussion is arising around proposed legislation in California to change the way that the director of the California Arts Council is appointed from a gubernatorial appointment to an appointment made by the Council members, who ...more

Stanford Professor of Organizational Behavior Chip Heath has pursued an intriguing line of research in his work exploring what makes ideas stick and how the “stickiness” of urban legends can be instructive in this arena.   The...more

Arts Advocacy Toolkits A well-designed, robust arts advocacy toolkit can train and empower advocates and can support action. Below please find an annotated list of arts advocacy toolkits that highlights some of their unique features as well a...more

A new soft advocacy campaign in Australia helps make the arts feel intriguing, accessible, and exciting. The project also has an interactive component through which participants will gradually be building Australia's largest collaborative digital ar...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

The American Association of Museums (AAM) has created a rich resource, Congress 101, in the advocacy section of AAM's website. Visit this resource to access tools to keep up with legislative progress, get basic information about House and Senate C...more