Chad Bauman
Annual Convention Speakers and Events in the News
Posted by May 18, 2007 0 comments
Chad Bauman
Annual Convention Advance Registration Cut-Off is Today!
Today is the last day to register in advance for Risk and Reward: Balancing Acts in Arts and Community, the Americans for Arts Annual Convention in Las Vegas, June 1-3, 2007.
Several of our speakers and activities at convention have been in the news recently:
New Hampshire Putting New Color into the Primary
This article highlights ArtsVoteNH, a partnership between New Hampshire Citizens for the Arts and the Americans for the Arts Action Fund, intended both to help candidates state their positions on the arts and humanities and to help voters learn those positions. "Our country, during the past three years, has exercised its communications primarily in some areas through military means, and through political and diplomatic means, and we've been sending out rough signals that the world has difficulty interpreting," said Glen Swanson of Peterborough, who helped create the initiative and just stepped down as the New Hampshire Citizens for the Arts' president. "One way to get across the true message of what America is all about is through the arts and humanities, and therefore we should put the arts and humanities up on top as far as the future of America."
At the Americans for the Arts Action Fund Member Reception scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, June 2 at the convention, Arts Action Fund Executive Director Nina Ozlu, will give details on ArtsVote2008, the Arts Action Fund's latest initiative to impact the 2008 Presidential elections. The Americans for the Arts Action Fund was created for citizens and organizations who want to help advance the arts politically in America.
Other headlines:
- Public Artist Katie Salen discusses OneNature commissioned by Americans for the Arts for the Las Vegas convention
- Public Advocacy Innovator Mathew Gross featured in Forbes article on political blogging
- Houston Chronicle highlights findings from National Arts Policy Roundtable on arts philanthropy; NAPR findings detailed at convention session on Saturday June 2.