ad-vo-cate (noun): 1. A person, who publicly supports a particular cause or policy 2. A person who pleads on someone else’s behalf.
Are you ready to become an ADVOCATE FOR THE ARTS? To speak up in public about your support of the arts? To plead on behalf of the many people who benefit from strong arts programs and organizations?
We hope so! At this new CSAC Website page, we’ll post important information on ways that you can ADVOCATE FOR THE ARTS! We all need to join together to let elected officials, public officers and local business leaders understand the power of the arts. We need to let them know that we want to live in a community, a state, a nation that places value and priority on THE ARTS!
One way to begin is through education. Visit the CALIFORNIA ARTS ADVOCACY website for a wealth of information: http://www.californiaartsadvocates.org/. Keep posted on what legislation is going to affect the arts. Then contact your state and national representatives to let them know your position on the importance of the arts.
One huge step that you can take for the ARTS in California is to get yourself a California Arts License Plate:
www.cac.ca.gov/licenseplate/index.php
Designed by one of California’s most beloved contemporary artists, Wayne Thiebaud, you get to drive around making your big ART STATEMENT. Thiebaud created an iconic image of California, widely understood and loved by people all over the world: California’s western sunsets, swaying palms and calm SoCal beaches.
Yeah! We know, Tuolumne County is in north CENTRAL California and some of you would rather see mountains, Yosemite, a black bear, but come on! Let’s go with it and SUPPORT THE ARTS! This writer did with new plates that say, “DO CRE8.”