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Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, will hold its 2012 Annual Convention in San Antonio, TX from June 8-11, 2012. Americans for the Arts is also holding both a Public Art Preconference and Emerging Leaders Preconference in San Antonio on June 7, 2012. During the convention, Americans for the Arts will announce the findings of its Arts and Economic Prosperity IV study, the most comprehensive economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry ever conducted in the United States.
Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, today announced the results of the National Arts Index, the annual measure of the health and vitality of the arts industries in the United States. The 2012 Index reveals that the arts industry began to recover from the effects of the Great Recession in 2010.
Americans for the Arts announces the event schedule for Arts Advocacy Day 2012. The 25th annual Arts Advocacy Day event is presented by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, in partnership with Ovation, the only multi-platform network celebrating all forms of artistic expression. It is also co-sponsored by more than 85 national organizations representing hundreds of thousands of arts, culture, business, civic and education institutions and individuals nationwide.
Americans for the Arts announces the event schedule for Arts Advocacy Day 2012. The 25th annual Arts Advocacy Day event is presented by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, in partnership with Ovation, the only multi-platform network celebrating all forms of artistic expression. It is also co-sponsored by more than 85 national organizations representing hundreds of thousands of arts, culture, business, civic and education institutions and individuals nationwide.
The NABE Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), and Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, jointly announced that Amy Serrano has won the 2011 NABE Foundation Americans for the Arts Scholarship Award on Monday, March 26 during a luncheon at the NABE Policy Conference in Arlington, VA.
Academy Award nominated actor Stanley Tucci and Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, will testify before Congress on March 22 in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to $155 million.
Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, today announced it has launched a new website for Animating Democracy, a program that works to inspire, inform, promote and connect arts as a contributor to community, civic and social change.
Noted singer-songwriter and record producer Ben Folds will perform at the Americans for the Arts 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy on April 16 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lecture is presented by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, in partnership with Ovation, the only television network celebrating art, artists, and all forms of artistic story-telling.
Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, today announced the election of six professionals to the executive committee of the Unites States Urban Arts Federation.
Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, announced today the election of Michelle T. Boone, Commissioner City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and William Kerr, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arbitron Inc., to its Board of Directors.
