Stories

The text used in the assessment tools are great descriptors, but its stories that bring this work to life. 

Below is a growing portfolio of stories from artists and advocates from across the country that can be filtered on the assessment tools, spectrum, and categories.  You can turn on and off these filters by clicking on the buttons. 

Use these examples to help locate yourself on the assessment tool and see how to move up on the spectrum. Read our Guidebook for more suggestions on how you can use Artists Thrive, putting the tools to practice, and sparking conversations with Artists Thrive.

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A City Plan Created without Artists

Casey Summar, Independent Consultant and former Executive Director of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, shares a cautionary tale about the lack of artists at the table for creating the previous strategic plan for the city of Nashville in the 1990s.

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I work with Artists Artists Give Up Advocacy

Working with Artists Behind-the-Scenes

I think the work that we do with individual artists around advocacy is very strategic and behind the scenes, because we, as an arts agency, are allowed to educate and inform but we’re not allowed to advocate. So, we work as an agency, most specifically providing individual artists or teams of artists with resources, strategy, people, evaluators; we function as a support to them in order for them to articulate their interests and their concerns.

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I work with Artists Artists Give Up Advocacy