ADVOCACY | Activating Your Networks to Get Out the Vote
September 28, 2020
Nonprofits can (and should) support activities that encourage voters to register, participate in elections, and stay civically engaged!
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Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) News provides information about happenings at our organization and throughout the artist residency field. This includes announcements about upcoming ACA events, Advocacy Alerts that spotlight policy issues, funding opportunities for artists and arts organizations, and press releases.
In addition to this News page, ACA regularly sends newsletters that feature important news and happenings that are relevant to artists, artist residency staff and other arts administrators.
FIELD NOTES | Our Work
August 11, 2020
“You’re on a path and you have to be consistent and you have to be persistent.” —John Lewis
The Five Pillars of a Healthy Residency
August 11, 2020
The Residency Self-Assessment Tool that ACA has developed is built on five pillars (Identity, Program Design, Operations, Resource Development, and Stewardship) through which to analyze what makes your organization’s climate exceptional or toxic. This tool will help you identify what is working or getting in the way of creating safer spaces for artists, staff, and community members in order to create structural change and sustainability.
FIELD PRACTICE | MacDowell Removes "Colony" from Name
July 22, 2020
MacDowell Colony announced the organization will now officially be known as MacDowell. We spoke with the executive director Philip Himberg about the staff petition that set their name change in motion and laying the groundwork for this shift at the 113-year-old institution.
ADVOCACY ALERT | Urge U.S. Congress to Expand COVID-19 Relief for the Arts Sector
July 16, 2020
Reach out to your members of Congress today to share stories from your organization that demonstrate the impact of COVID-19 on nonprofit administrators, freelancers, artists, and community members in your region.
FIELD SURVEY | Mapping a Path to Reopening
July 7, 2020
The Alliance of Artists Communities (AAC) is gathering information from residency programs to help all stakeholders understand the impact of Covid-19 related closures.
National Endowment for the Arts Announces CARES Act Grantees
July 7, 2020
Earlier this week, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced 846 nonprofit arts organizations that have been recommended for grants through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
FIELD NOTES | Language Matters
June 26, 2020
“There is not a place in North, South, or Central America that is not Indigenous land.” —Sharon Day, 2019 AAC Conference, St. Paul, MN
“The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.” ―Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
RELIEF FUNDING | Paycheck Protection Program Forgiveness
June 23, 2020
Last week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a streamlined Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness application and announced several new guidelines.
FIELD NOTES | This is not a moment.
June 13, 2020
“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” ―Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me