Listen to Aimee Adatto Freeman, the Arts Council's Director of Development talk about The Big Event: Fundraising Galas and how you measure success.

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On May 19th, 2010 artists Kyle Bravo, Tami Curtis Ellis, and Steve Martin joined the Arts Council to present "Having an Artist Run Gallery." The Arts Council is happy to now be able to offer an audio recording of this workshop for free streaming.

Items discussed include:

• Taking the plunge to open your own space.
• Financing your art gallery.
• Finding the right location.
• The workings of an artist co-op.
• Marketing your artist run gallery.
• Planning gallery openings and events.
• And more!

To listen to the audio, please click here.

Find this information helpful? Then please consider contributing!

Funding for this event was provided in part by grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.  

Watch our 2010 Community Arts Awards video to learn more about our outstanding group of honorees, including: Anthony Bean Community Theatre & Acting School Diana Boylston S. Stewart Farnet Mitchell Gaudet Komenka Ethnic Dance and Music Enselmble The Newcomb Art Gallery Lionel Ferbos, Chairman's Award Recipient

 

As a not-for-profit financial cooperative, RiverLand's earnings are returned to their members in the form of lower rates on loans, higher dividend rates on savings and investments, and convenient fee-free services.They have free checking accounts, free debit cards, free phone banking (toll-free), free online banking, extensive ATM Network, affordable low-rate loans, and no annual fee MasterCards allow you to conveniently manage your accounts any time, regardless of where you live. In our support of the Arts in New Orleans, RiverLand Credit Union membership is extended to all members of the Arts Council of New Orleans.

For Arts Council membership, you can join online here, or call us at 504-523-1465.

For more information on RiverLand, Questions? Call 504.576.5800 or 800.586.4RCU(4728) or visit us at www.riverlandcu.org. 

The Arts Council's webinar on non-profit incorporation is now available on demand for free streaming. You can now view this 20 minute presentation at your leisure, as well as pause, rewind and fast forward.

• Alternatives to becoming 501c3
• When is the right time to incorporate
• How to incorporate
• Your responsibilities once you have incorporated

To view this webinar, please click here.

Find this information helpful? Then please consider contributing!

This workshop is funded with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation  

The Arts Council of New Orleans, on behalf of the City of New Orleans’ Percent For Art Program, is pleased to announce the selection of a new sculpture to be created specifically for Coliseum Square. The proposal: Birth of a Muse, by local sculptor Kim Bernadas, was selected by a panel of neighborhood representatives, an artist, architect, landscape designer and public art expert.

The new sculpture will be a cast bronze figure representing one of the nine muses who are the namesakes of the Lower Garden District neighborhood. When the piece is installed on Terpsichore St. it will create another entrance point to the park guarded by a strong female figure; like Margaret Haughery at the Clio St. entrance, and Sophie Wright at the Uptown end of the park system.

The budget for the new sculpture is $30,000.  

The National Arts Index is a highly-distilled annual measure of the health and vitality of arts in the U.S. using 76 national-level indicators of arts and culture activity. This report covers an 11-year period, from 1998 to 2008. This National Arts Index encompasses one of the largest collections of data on arts and culture in the U.S. ever assembled. The information has been gathered from reputable government and private sector sources and covering multiple industries--nonprofit and for-profit arts organizations, artists, funding and investment, employment, attendance and personal creation, and much more. Click here to download the pdf. 

The Craft Emergency Relief Fund has just released its artist designed and tested toolkit to help artists become disaster ready and disaster resilient. The Studio Protector is a comprehensive digest of general, medium-specific and disaster-specific information that guides the user through all aspects of emergency management plus interviews with artists and experts.

The Arts Council will provide all new or renewing members one Studio Protector for free while supplies last. You can also purchase one at cost from the Arts Council for $16 plus shipping.

To purchase your Studio Protector, or to receive one, please email Gene Meneray.

To view a video of the Studio Protector in action, please click here.  

The National Endowment for the Arts has released its 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. This report describes U.S. adult arts participation in 2008. It shows attendance at live arts events (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances), as well as the number and percentage of adults visiting art museums and reading literature. The survey also investigates arts participation through broadcast and recorded media, the Internet, and personal participation such as singing in choirs or making photographs. In addition, the report discusses demographic and geographic differences in arts participation, compares 2008 rates to those found in 1982, 1992, and 2002, and summarizes 2008 results by art form.

To download the report, please go to www.nea.gov/research/2008-SPPA.pdf