
Your Guide To Great Community Project Guides
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If you have been inspired by all the great community projects you see different arts groups doing and dream of doing something similar, but don’t know where to start, Minnesota based Springboard for the Arts has you covered with their Creative Exchange site. In particular, the Toolkit section of the site has guides written by the creators of various projects from across the country to help you do what they did. All of the toolkits ...

Let’s Get Real With Our Donors About Our Diversity Engagement Efforts
The end of the fiscal year is looming for many arts organizations and Spring “We do good work, Give us your money!” letters are being written now. I’m sure many of those letters highlight sell-out shows and performances or exhibits with renowned guest artists. I bet most of them also highlight your organization’s education and community engagement programs. Our elevator speeches that make it into these development letters include facts and figures of the programs: “25,000 ...

Need A Space? SpaceFinder Can Help
If you’re an artist or organization that doesn’t have a regular venue, you know the difficulties of finding places to rehearse or perform. My organization, the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is fortunate to have a semi-regular concert hall that we perform in frequently throughout the season. But, as we work to get into the community and meet people where they are, we’re running into the same challenge of finding appropriate performance venues. Many artists may be ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…