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Creative West enhances the work of the state arts agencies across the region by investing in thought partnership, professional development for staff, and advocacy for the agencies.
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- Executive Director Forum and Teleconference;State Arts Agency Professional Development Program;Pacific Initiative Funds;Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture;Relief and Recovery Grants
Executive Director Forum and Teleconference
The Forum and Teleconference are curated opportunities for the executive directors of state arts agencies in the region to meet in person annually for a two-day restorative retreat, in conjunction with the Summer Creative West Board of Trustees Meeting, and quarterly in a hour teleconference to share about recent accomplishments by the agency or ask for support from their peers.
State Arts Agency Professional Development Program
Creative West delivers regular professional development programs that provide valuable learning and networking opportunities for state arts agency staff in Creative West member states. These sessions are designed to provide insights into emerging trends in the field for the spectrum of state arts agency staff. Recent sessions have covered a range of topics, including rural arts, diversity, inclusion and equity, and emerging recreational industries.
Pacific Initiative Funds
The Pacific Initiative Funds are provided to the Pacific jurisdiction agencies: Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency, the Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture (CNMI) and American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture and Humanities. This fund addresses unmet needs of the agencies—fueling innovative programming, enhanced services, staff development, enriching agency culture, and amplifying public service.
Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture
The Festival known as FestPAC is the world’s largest celebration of Pacific arts and culture. Every four years the festival brings together 28 island entities to showcase song, dance, visual art, seafaring, literary arts and more. Creative West supports eligible state art agency participation in FestPAC as an opportunity to unite and support Indigenous arts and culture of the Pacific.
Crédito de la fotografía: Ifong Chen
Crédito de la fotografía: Creative West
Crédito de la fotografía: Creative West
Photo Credit LVRG Group
Relief and Recovery Grants
From 2020-21, Creative West, with the support of federal and private funding, prioritized relief and recovery funding to arts organizations and artists throughout the 13-state region and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Largely, these organizations were most impacted by the pandemic but had received little or no funding support up to that point, allowing Creative West to build new funding relationships across the sector.
In May 2020, Creative West opened its Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Relief Fund for Organizations. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, this competitive grant program was established to provide general operating support to arts and cultural organizations in the West that have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Awards were made to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, units of state and local government, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments across the West, with a minimum of one grant awarded to each state in the region. Applications were assessed on inclusivity, demonstrated need, artistic and cultural merit, and public and community benefit.
In June 2020, WESTAF announced its partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on a new relief grant to support arts organizations in the 13-state western region. The $10 million Regional Arts Resilience Fund is a first-of-its-kind relief and recovery grant that was awarded to each of the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. The fund was designed to help mitigate the financial threat to the sector caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting small- and mid-sized arts organizations of all artistic disciplines in rural and urban areas that are regarded by their peers as having statewide, regional, or national impact. In fall 2020, WESTAF began administering the regranting of over $1.7 million in Regional Arts Resilience Fund support.
With the help of 20 arts and culture leaders from across the 13-state region who served as advisors/panelists, WESTAF adjudicated the 81 applications from organizations that were invited to apply between August 19 and September 8, 2020. From the 464 initial nominations received in August, WESTAF funded 39 organizations with grants in the range of $30,000 to $74,000. Applications were assessed on commitment to equity; exceptional artistic impact; visionary leadership; and engagement and impact locally, regionally, and nationally.
In November 2021, Creative West awarded grant funding to 44 arts and culture organizations across our region, with at least two grants awarded per state at an average level of $35,000 each. Aligning with the priorities of the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment), the WESTAF ARP program focused on applications that indicated a deep commitment to cultural equity, social justice and disrupting systemic racism through service to a host of constituencies, including rural and remote communities, Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and organizations that support the independence and lifelong inclusion of people with disabilities, among others.
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CaFÉ es un sistema de presentación de solicitudes en línea que se esfuerza por poner las oportunidades artísticas al alcance de todos, ofreciendo a las organizaciones artísticas una plataforma de presentación asequible y a los artistas una forma fácil de presentar su solicitud.
GO Smart es un software asequible de gestión de subvenciones que ofrece formularios previos y posteriores a la solicitud, revisión de paneles e informes de datos para los donantes.
El Archivo de Arte Público (PAA) es una base de datos en línea gratuita, con capacidad de búsqueda y en continuo crecimiento de obras de arte público terminadas en todo Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, con un conjunto de recursos y herramientas creados para gestionar colecciones de arte público.
ZAPP proporciona a los administradores de ferias y festivales de arte un conjunto de herramientas para recopilar digitalmente las solicitudes y formar parte del jurado, gestionar los pagos de los stands y comunicarse con los solicitantes, todo ello en una plataforma digital fácil de usar. Los artistas pueden inscribirse en cientos de ferias de todo el país a través de un sitio web central.