GUIDES AND TOOLKITS
Your single stop for a wealth of information and resources you can apply to any project.
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Your single stop for a wealth of information and resources you can apply to any project.
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.
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!
Check out our newest guide: Imaginings: A DIY Guide to Arts-Based Community Dialogue, everything you need to know to host a vibrant, creative, equitable, and powerful community dialogue.
Art & Well-Being: Toward A Culture of Health is a guide for Citizen Artists who place their gifts at the service of healing, working for both individual and collective well-being, recognizing social justice as the foundation of a culture of health.
A call for artists, creative organizers, concerned citizens, and all community members to draw inspiration from and breathe new life into the prophetic words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., strengthening our commitment to speak truth to power and sparking creative action in the year ahead.
Disrupt narratives of hate. Model participatory democracy. Here are nine creative ways to step up with a Super Public Act of Compassion or Participatory Act of Culture!
We the people have the power to enshrine the #RightToBelong as public and private policy. A policy is a kind of pledge to guide future action. When an agency or institution adopts a policy, they are saying, “Hold us accountable to this.”
Help spark a movement to acknowledge original Native inhabitants at the opening of all public events.
How can we respond creatively and ethically to social and environmental crises?
"HI-LI" stands for High-Impact Low-Infrastructure. Explore our catalogue of HI-LI models for building creative community. Every project listed is participatory, replicable, and volunteer-friendly.