Report on the work of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation from 2009 to 2013.
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Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities National Online Dialogue Brief
“What ideas do you have to increase the career preparation and employment for people with disabilities in the arts?” This question was posed to participants in an online discussion hosted by the NEA in partnership with the National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) in June 2016. Using ODEP’s ePolicyWorks online dialogue platform, this conversation engaged 390 participants representing artists, arts administrators, arts organizations, arts educators, arts employers, and disability organizations, who shared feedback from their own experiences and offered ideas about how to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities in the arts. This brief provides a summary of these ideas and recommendations for the field.
ARTS DEPLOYED: An Action Guide for Community Arts & Military Programming
A collaboration between AFTA’s National Initiative on Arts & Health and the Military and the Local Arts Advancement departments, Arts Deployed is a guide for arts organizations and artists interested in bringing creative arts programming to military and Veteran communities, their caregivers, and families.
Arts and Culture Are Closer Than You Realize: U.S. Nonprofit Arts and Cultural Organizations Are a Big Part of Community Life, Economy, and Employment – and Federal Funding Enhances the Impact
In March 2017, the Trump Administration formally proposed the abolition of the two federal agencies that support arts and culture in the U.S., the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Elimination of federal support is not about the money, which only comes to 45 cents per capita for the NEA or .003 percent of the federal budget. The decimation of federal support is the coup de grâce of a long campaign carefully crafted to mislead the public into believing that the arts are irrelevant to most Americans.
How Arts and Cultural Organizations Invest
Arts and cultural organizations invest heavily in direct, mission-related activities and in the people who deliver them.
Arts-in-Corrections: County Jails Project
California Lawyers for the Arts is now conducting a multi-year demonstration project in county jails throughout California. Results are documented in a 2017 report, Arts-in-Corrections: County Jails Project. With additional foundation and NEA support, CLA is contracting with local arts agencies to place artists at county jails and administer surveys to participants who complete the arts classes. The findings from CLA’s first project year were based on art programs in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Francisco county jails. For more information about this project, contact aic@calawyersforthearts.org.
