2023 Spring Network Gathering
People's State of the Union
This year, we asked what it might look like to transform our grief and rage into justice. We are honored to present you with this year’s Poetic Address to the Nation, crafted by Emmy Pérez, 2022 USA Fellow & 2020 Texas Poet Laureate. Pérez draws upon her visit to Uvalde last month in the days after the massacre to memorialize the victims, and to call for change.
A People's WPA
A People's WPA is a storytelling project with the goal of convincing policymakers to invest in arts, culture, and newly imagined sectors of labor critical to our healing and survival. Our newest publication features conversations with artists, writers, and policy makers into a policy toolkit that outlines how to create an artist jobs program at the local, state, and federal level.
Artists Unite for a Green New Deal — Toolkit
What is the Green New Deal? How will it address the climate crisis? What are creative ways to get involved? As artists, educators, cultural workers, and community leaders, it’s our job to envision the more just world we know is possible—and to invite others to help bring it into being. Use these resources from the USDAC to get started!
