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Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 40-year record of objective arts industry research, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
(API) is a nonprofit organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists. They are involved in significant programs, including: Community Arts Network. The Community Arts Network (CAN) supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, providing both intellectual nourishment and social benefit, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists. Their monthly newsletter, APInews, is their monthly newsletter covering the field of community-based art.
Arts Midwest enables individuals and families throughout America's heartland to share in and to enjoy the arts and cultures of our region and the world. Arts Midwest connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. One of six non-profit regional arts organizations in the United States, Arts Midwest's history spans more than 25 years.
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization of the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. NASAA's mission is to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the United States. We empower state arts agencies through strategic assistance that fosters leadership, enhances planning and decision making, and increases resources.
The Front Porch Institute, created by Patrick Overton in 1996, is dedicated to exploring the role of the arts and culture in the community-making process, especially focusing on the essential role the arts play in engaging citizens in the democracy of civil discourse.
The Community Arts Network (CAN) supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, providing both intellectual nourishment and social benefit, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists.
Portalwisconsin.org is a non-profit web site created by the Cultural Coalition to promote culture, arts, humanities and history in Wisconsin. Using a variety of web based media, Portal Wisconsin will serve as a gateway to the rich content of the Cultural Coalition partner organizations, as well as other cultural entities throughout the state. Content will include a statewide events calendar, news articles, course listings, organizational listings, streaming video and audio, moderated online chats, online galleries, and Web links. Visitors will be able to search for content by keyword, geographic area and interest area. Content will be dynamic and constantly evolving.
The Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts advances the importance, development, and growth of the arts and cultural activities in Wisconsin and all of its communities.
The association is a statewide group of writers, amateur and professional, dedicated to self-improvement, service to others, and to the writer's craft. It was founded in 1948 by Professor Robert E. Gard of the University of Wisconsin. The purpose of the organization was to draw together the many diverse creative elements in the state and provide an opportunity and an outlet for that creative writing talent.
At the Wormfarm Institute, we work to build a sustainable future for agriculture and the arts by fostering vital links between people and the land. Generating, supporting and promoting these links between our creative selves, our work and our place on earth is essential for a thriving human community.