Advocacy
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
-Kurt Vonnegut to Xavier HS students, New York City
HAWAIʻI ARTS ALLIANCE IS THE STATE CAPTAIN FOR AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS AND A MEMBER OF THE STATE ARTS ACTION NETWORK (SAAN)
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance acts as Hawai‘i's State Captain for Arts Advocacy. The SAAN serves as the meeting place for statewide arts organizations to discuss common issues.
The joining together of these two organizations with Americans for the Arts is consistent with the bold five-year strategic plan developed as a result of a $120 million gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly. In that plan, Americans for the Arts identified the need for creating a statewide advocacy organization and a statewide service organization in every state.
The State Arts Action Council and State Arts Action Network will strengthen and build arts advocacy and service infrastructure in the United States at the national, state, and local levels. It will help shape public policy, initiate effective advocacy campaigns, set research agendas, provide meaningful professional development, and provide peer-to-peer networking opportunities to emerging arts organizations.
Learn more at https://www.americansforthearts.org/
AFTA’s AEP Study
Arts and Economic Prosperity® is conducted by Americans for the Arts, the nation’s nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America, and implemented in the state of Hawai‘i by Hawai‘i Arts Alliance with partial funding from the State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT).
Creative Resurgence Task force
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, along with other local organizations are advocating for a Creative Resurgence Caucus at the State Legislature to call attention to the local Creative Community & advance legislation that benefits the Creative Sector, which in turn, will benefit the community & economy at large.
DOE & National CORE arts Standard
We are advocating for DOE reform to hire a full time, certified arts educator on every elementary and middle school campus to provide arts instruction as an integral part of education from pre-K-12.