Resources to review before the session:
Freedom Maps – an incredibly in-depth study that looks at rural arts funding in the South and its social and cultural implications and impacts: https://freedommaps.us/
Sunup Initiative: https://sunupcorbin.com/
Show up for Racial Justice Chapters & Affiliates – notice the number of affiliates in rural communities: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/chapters-and-affiliates.html
Fact sheet on the issue from National Association of State Arts Agencies: https://nasaa-arts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Rural-Grant-Making-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Report from the National Governors’ Association on rural arts capacity: https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NGA_RuralArtsReport.pdf
- INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – ILI Intercultural Leadership Institute
- Freedom Maps – an incredibly in-depth study that looks at rural arts funding in the South and its social and cultural implications and impacts: https://freedommaps.
us/ - WESTAF Emerging Leaders of Color
- The Community Creativity Initiative at the Bush Foundation
- First Peoples Fund
- Artplace America
- Art of the Rural
- the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange
- This week, Chrissy will include the link to WESTAF Arts + the Rural West Virtual Workshop Session Report, a convening which aimed to:
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Engage a western network of thought leaders and community builders whose work intersects with the rural arts agenda.
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Share knowledge and highlight work being done in the West.
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Ensure that western rural arts perspectives inform national conversations around rural arts.
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Discover potential areas of regional partnership/collaboration.
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Define a rural arts agenda for the West.
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- Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy
- A Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. « Join us!
- Living Traditions – National Endowment for the Arts
- Are You Ready for the Country?: Creative Placemaking in Rural America
- Grantmakers in the Arts: Racial Equity in Arts Funding Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action
- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity in Arts & Culture Philanthropy
