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Iowa Arts Forum

The 2019 Iowa Arts Forum brought together arts advocates and colleagues from across Iowa to events in Clarinda and Des Moines. Participants fine tuned their arts advocacy strategy and learned what steps can be taken to ensure the arts are on the agendas of media and policymakers as they set their sights on Iowa for the first-in-the-nation caucuses. Celebrated singer-songwriter and ArtsVote 2020 Chair Ben Folds partnered with Americans for the Arts Action Fund and the Iowa Cultural Coalition to provide tips to elevate the creative economy by advancing arts policy at the local, state and national levels.

View photos from the events in Clarinda and Des Moines on August 14 and 15, 2019.
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The Iowa Arts Forum is presented by Americans for the Arts, Americans for the Arts Action Fund, the Iowa Cultural Coalition, the Iowa Alliance for Arts Education, Hoyt Sherman Place and the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

August 15, 2019
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Hoyt Sherman Place
501 Woodland Ave, Des Moines, IA 50314

Agenda

Noon - 1:00 p.m. – Registration

Check-in as an Iowa arts advocate to receive your arts advocacy information and gear.

1:00 - 1: 30 p.m.  –  Welcome

  • Chris Kramer, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
  • Robert L. Lynch, Americans for the Arts Action Fund
  • Leon Kuehner, Iowa Alliance for Arts Education
  • Tom Smull, Iowa Cultural Coalition

1:30 - 2:15 p.m. –  Advocacy Training

Hear about current arts-friendly public policy initiatives at the federal, state and local levels from Americans for the Arts Action Fund and the Iowa Cultural Coalition. Update your strategies to engage and educate candidates and policy makers about the importance of the arts and a creative economy.

  • Nina Ozlu Tunceli, Americans for the Arts Action Fund
  • David Reid, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
  • Leon Kuehner, Iowa Alliance for Arts Education
  • Tom Smull, Iowa Cultural Coalition

2:15 p.m.  – Break

2:30 - 4:00 p.m. – ArtsVote 2020: Candidates and Conversation with Ben Folds

Presidential candidates are invited to join celebrated singer-songwriter and ArtsVote 2020 Chair Ben Folds to share their views and policies on the arts and arts education. ArtsVote 2020 is a nationwide initiative of the Americans for the Arts Action Fund that works to share the value of the creative economy with our nation’s political candidates.

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Networking Reception

Meet your fellow Iowa arts advocates at a networking reception featuring Iowa musicians.

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