I can’t visit the shops and festivals our creative entrepreneurs are showing their work in, but here are resources to help them stay in biz! #isupportthearts

I suppose our Arts Advocacy Month at the @ArtsCouncilGL couldn’t have come at a better time. We are surviving this because #artiststhrive and they give us hope and they give us strength. I hope we continue to support them the way they are supporting us ❤️ #isupportthearts

Learning from the Americans for the Arts team today. If you are an arts org or individual artist, they have amazing information and resources at Americansforthearts.org!

I love talking about the work we do at the @ArtsCouncilGL , but I suppose I am talking a bit more about being and artist myself and what that takes. Check it out! rebelpictures.net/the-magic-hour…

ITS TIME!

Oh, hey Nance! Nancy Pelosi #AFTACON

“A failure to invest in the arts is a failure to invest in America’s future.” Nancy Pelosi #AFTACON

“How can we forgive the fragmenting wounds of the past as they continue to bleed into the present?” Vijay Gupta #HanksLecture #TheNextResponse

Here's Vijay Gupta, setting the tone for his Nancy Hanks Lecture at #aftacon: "How can we forgive the dream of our nation built on genocide, built by stolen people on stolen land?"

We interrupt this feed to bring you peace and music. “Artists understand forgiveness.” Thank you Vijay Gupta for sharing your talent and words during Americans for the Arts annual conference #artsmatter #AFTAcon #hankslecture

“We are called because of our innate ability to respond”—thank you for the inspiration Vijay Gupta #AFTACON Americans for the Arts

"Defining a neighborhood by its afflictions is a convenient excuse to erase it." Vijay Gupta Americans for the Arts #HanksLecture

"In Skid Row, we were taught that listening is one sure act of love." Vijay Gupta is also founder of Street Symphony, an organization that works to lift up the stories and lives of people affected by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles. #HanksLecture #TheNextResponse

"Like the thread which unravels the tapestry of all grief, the pandemic of COVID and the deeper pandemic of racism have laid bare a fundamental brokenness." Vijay Gupta #HanksLecture Americans for the Arts "We can't consume our way back into wholeness."

"We practice the relationships between us and our colleagues. We practice listening. We practice new conversations of accountability" Vijay Gupta #HanksLecture "As artists have always done, we practice change. We practice evolution. We practice a human policy of connection."

We have the ability to acknowledge suffering as a way to connect to system reform and repair and a pathway to justice—thank you @paul_farber #AFTACON Americans for the Arts

A few #PublicArt mantras from #AFTACON Keynote: On Power and Participation: Public Art and Radical Visions Toward Justice, Repair, and Regrowth | Keynote Speaker Paul Farber, Monument Lab #ArtActivism #RacialEquity #Decolonize #Democratize

62% of creative workers are now unemployed because of the #coronavirus pandemic. Arts & culture need YOUR help to survive—urge Congress to extend Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance through the end of the year. Click here to contact your reps now: bit.ly/2B4J2wY

Arts and culture need YOUR help to survive this pandemic. Stand with me + @americans4arts as we ask Congress to support artists, arts organizations & creative workers in new #COVID19 relief legislation. Take two minutes to contact your reps now: bit.ly/30hoFp1

“As we rebuild the nation for which we stand, the artists of America kneel & kiss the ground. We let the beauty we love—the art we love, the nation we love—become what we do. We become America, the beautiful.” Vijay Gupta Watch the 2020 #HanksLecture now! bit.ly/2BQImM7