Advocacy
Museums and Galleries
Artists-Museum Partnership Act
April 2008
The Artists-Museum Partnership Act now has a record thirty supporters in the Senate; eighty-eight members in the House of Representatives support the bill, which also surpasses previous support. Click here to read more. Participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil
March 2008
Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) and Donny George, former director of the Iraq Museum and former president of the Iraq State Board of Antiquities, invite you to participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Click here to read more. Fisk Museum Barred from Selling Artworks
February 2008
A Tennessee judge has barred Fisk University from selling works of art from its Stieglitz Collection. For two years, university officials have been trying to sell paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and more in hopes of raising millions of dollars to help the financially troubled school. Click here to read more. Participants Sought for March Hearings on Museum Funding
January 2008
Avid museum goers, community leaders, museum professionals, and individuals who have encountered barriers to museum going are encouraged to make their views known at one of three public hearings on the use of public funds for museums. Click here to read more. Art Deaccessioning at Randolph College
November 2007
Preserve Educational Choice, a nonprofit organization, has launched an effort to raise funds for the required bond to meet a Virginia Supreme Court injunction against the sale of art by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. Click here to read more. Join Americans for the Arts' Cultural Policy Listserv
October 2007
Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, and New York that promotes and advances the arts in America, invites you to join its Cultural Policy listserv to receive the latest in arts advocacy news. Click here to read more. Proposed Randolph College Art Collection Sale
October 2007
CAA releases a statement on the sale of the four paintings from the permanent collection of the Maier Museum of Art, at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Click here to read more. 