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Personal Arts Advocacy

Posted On February 13, 2017 By Shoshana

Our journey of becoming an arts advocate continues! This week we will… 

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Arts Advocacy Podcast Month!

Posted On February 6, 2017 By Shoshana

This month, the ADS Podcast will be all about arts advocacy. Due… 

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Our arts begin to end

Posted On August 28, 2013 By Shoshana

Today is the 5oth anniversary of the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, “I have a dream…”  One of the quotes that is being distributed is “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”  This quote literally woke me up this morning, well, enough for me to begin writing… 

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In your face arts advocacy!

Posted On June 24, 2013 By Shoshana

I am still processing my Americans for the Arts Conference notes, but I do feel ready to talk about one of the points I made in my wrap-up blog.   I do feel that arts advocacy needs to be a main focus.  Right now, we have a little bit of momentum in terms of selling the… 

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Non-profit/artist mentality and arts audience development

Posted On August 14, 2012 By Shoshana

I was at the thrift store last week on one of my treasure hunts, and I came across a book by T. Harv Eker called Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.  Seeing that I was in a thrift store, it was a little ironic, but I picked it up acknowledging that perhaps I do not have… 

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Audience Development for Arts Advocacy II

Posted On August 1, 2012 By Shoshana

I was watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and tweeted a comment that this ceremony was the arts.  I had a fellow arts tweep politely tell me that we may not want to connect the ceremony to the arts since the general public may not like it (or understand the cultural differences) and it… 

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