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The 99% and the Arts

By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab.

The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system. While the arts field wrestles internally with issues of diversity and aging, attacks by Occupy activists are actually an affirmation of the relevance of the arts in civic life. […]

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May 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Activist Art, Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, to Artists | Comments are closed

‘You Can’t Evict an Idea Whose Time Has Come’

By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab.

At the recent Policy Link Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit at a session called “Holding Ground,” progressive presenters—including Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, who participated in the “driving filibuster” to prevent the dismantling of collective bargaining, spoke about maintaining equity in a time a cutbacks. […]

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November 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, Resources, The Business of Art, to Artists | Comments are closed

The Art Inside #OccupyWallStreet

By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab.

Throughout history art has been fundamentally intertwined with social movements and political activism and it continually serves as a critical avenue through which to question, comment on, and influence change in the world around it. And this time around is no exception. While the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain momentum, the arts have […]

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October 31st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, New Works & Announcements, Resources, The Business of Art, to Artists | Comments are closed