State Campaigns Federal Issues Please Oppose Reducing Electives in MN High Schools There is a proposal to reduce elective courses for high school students at the Capitol that would reduce student’s access to arts education courses like music, band, orchestra, choir, visual arts, dance and theater. High schools are required to provide access to three... 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 comprehensive... Increase NEA Funding! UPDATE: On March 18, President Trump released his FY 2020 budget recommending the elimination of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and other cultural agencies. This is the third time the president's budget has recommended elimination of the... Urge your legislators to support arts funding! Your legislators need to know that their constituents support the arts. In the 2019 legislative session, legislators will be considering the next two years of arts funding. Please take five minutes to ask them to support the arts, and let them know that the Arts Give Back.
