The arts world wants you.(trends & events)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, January, 2005
> NEW YORK CITY: At a news conference this past November, Americans for the Arts, the nation's largest nonprofit arts advocacy group, announced that it seeks to enlist 100,000 volunteers to lobby for better treatment for the arts. These "citizen activists," according to playwright Wendy Wasserstein, are part of a national lobbying program that will assist local, state and federal government officials to adopt policies more friendly to arts and art education as well as to stem a serious decline in public and private contributions to the ...
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