National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

Website URL:

https://www.nasaa-arts.org

Address:

Washington, District of Columbia

Primary Contact:

Pam Breaux - pam.breaux@nasaa-arts.org

Areas of Expertise

  • GRANTMAKING–NASAA collects state arts agency (SAA) grantmaking statistics every year. This overview of SAA grantmaking and funding activities provides summary grant statistics, funding trends over time and select state-by-state information. It is a succinct introduction to SAAs.
  • RESEARCH–NASAA is an authoritative resource for information about SAAs and public funding for the arts. NASAA research informs and inspires SAAs, driving excellence and sparking innovation. We also supply information on best practices.
  • ADVOCACY–NASAA is a champion for the arts and SAAs. Our advocacy tools and research help advocates grow support for the arts in states and nationally. NASAA also works in Washington DC to shape federal policy and give SAAs a persuasive voice with Congress.

Current Top Priorities for Guidance or Collaboration

Contact us to learn more about these current priority areas or to explore collaboration opportunities.
  1. Advocacy research and tools
  2. State arts agency grantmaking research and tools
  3. State arts agency best practices research
  4. Equity in grantmaking tools

Geographical Areas Served:

National,

Primary Audience Served:

Local and State Arts Agencies,

Artistic Discipline:

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

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Title: Fluent Nature | Artist: Melli Hoppe | Medium: Film

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When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

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My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

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Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

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La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

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Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

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Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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