State Campaigns Federal Issues Celebrate National Shop Local Artists Week! Join us in celebrating National Shop Local Artists Week on December 2 - 8, 2018! We invite you to send op-eds to your local media to promote the importance of supporting our communities' artists and creative economy, to invest in the work of local artists, and to... Save the NEA Update: We're now past the September 30 deadline for FY 2019 appropriations bills to be passed, so the Interior bill which funds the NEA, NEH, and other cultural agencies is operating under a continuing resolution (CR) until December 7, 2018. Congress will likely vote... Help Self-Employed Workers After Disaster Strikes Recent disasters, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the wildfires in California, have underscored the need to support and strengthen our national recovery framework. In 2002, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) wrote regulations that excluded... Thank your legislators for state arts funding! Your legislators need to know that their constituents support the arts. In the 2017 legislative session, legislators supported increased arts funding. Please take five minutes to thank them for supporting the arts. Urge Congress to Cosponsor the CREATE Act On Arts Advocacy Day, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) announced new legislation to strengthen the creative economy to a crowd of over 500 arts advocates. Entitled Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy (CREATE) Act (S.2648), the...
