The arts council New Orleans has been around for nearly four decades. This council is a private, nonprofit organization whose goal is to support art and culture in the city and show how art can transform and bring communities together. The art council works together with different organizations throughout the community to transform the art culture and create more opportunities for unique artistic expression as well as bringing the community together while celebrating the multicultural heritage of New Orleans. The art council's goals consists of:
- Inspire and connect people to place and to each other through the arts and arts experiences
- Invest in local artists and cultural producers as the wellspring of our community's power to imagine, grow, and thrive
- Transform place through creative, art and design-centered solutions in public space
- Use art to address critical civic, social, and community development challenges
- Provide resources to artists and arts organizations that transform the community
The art council does whatever it can to help artist and the community thrive, they provide grant funding, commission art in public places, design creative youth development and skill building initiatives. The art council states that they strive to connect with artists, and arts advocates around and beyond the New Orleans metro area.
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* While visiting New Orleans we got to see one of the events that the art council helps to keep going and organizes, the art market. This market was full of little booths from different artists filled with their artwork. At this event you were able to look at all the different works of art and even talk to the artist who made it as well as purchase the art if you liked it. It was a cool experience to see the art councils hard work pay off to keep events like this around.
Sources:
http://www.artsneworleans.org/
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