Become a Citizen Artist Campaign
A statewide campaign to empower artists working in all disciplines to become more involved with their elected officials, and with public policy, legislative, and community issues that directly impact their livelihoods. (Note: please also see www.healthcareforartists.org and its section on Massachusetts Health care Reform Legislation, as this is a very important issues facing the artists community).
Goals:
To have artists sign up for the AF free list serve, to have artists vote,
to have them become more involved with their elected officials on all levels
of government, and to have them become involved with the AF's Creative Alliance
on line project and the issues the CA is currently working on as outlined
on the AF's web site.
Specific Goals:
1) Get artists to vote and to get those artists who are not registered to
vote, registered.
2) Empower artists to know their elected officials on city/town, state, and national levels. Help artists to find out who represents them via the AF web site. Encourage artists to introduce themselves to their elected officials. Encourage an artist to let their elected officials know that they are an artist who lives in their district, that they vote and that they will be in touch with them on issues that are important to them and their lively hoods. This campaign will encourage artists to add their elected officials to their art mailing list and to personally invite their elected officials and their staffs to their art events.
One of the biggest things the AF Executive Director constantly hears from legislators, "We never see or hear from artists- we only hear from the heads of arts organizations. We would like to hear from artists." This campaign will answer that request.
