Community Arts Advocates

Community Arts Advocates cultivates ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities.

Community Arts Advocates, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding public awareness, participation in and support of the arts through performances and festivals, exhibits and workshops, publicity, educational forums, nonprofit arts management consultation services, and collaborative projects.

Description:
Community Arts Advocates has four basic program and service areas:

1. multicultural educational programs
2. nonprofit arts management services
3. festival and event production and marketing services
4. arts advocacy & artists support services
   
   

Specific program include:

Consulting and acting as fiscal agent for individual artists and unincorporated artist associations

Advocacy for street artists through the Street Arts and Buskers Advocates publications, web site and documentation projects

Providing Multicultural Educational Programs for in-school, after-school, community, government and corporate clients with community arts groups.

Much of this work is supported by volunteer labor and in-kind contributions. Our financial support comes from four sources:

1. Earned income, from event admissions, fiscal fees, publication sales, service contract fees and workshop tuition
2. Government grants
3. Private foundation grants
4. Contributions from individuals and small businesses.



History:
Community Arts Advocates is a non-profit arts and artists advocacy organization working with many types of creative people including visual artists, musicians, writers, commercial artists, folk artists and crafts people. Executive Director, Stephen Baird has worked recently with two part-time academic-year interns from Massachusetts College of Art and Wheelock College, full time Summer Fellows from MIT, and part-time summer intern from Boston University, Smith College and Wheelock College. CAA staff together have extensive previous history working with thousands of volunteers and are dedicated to providing a rewarding experience for our interns and volunteers.


Contact person: Stephen Baird, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Address:


39 Robeson St Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org

Directions:

39 Robeson Street is between Forest Hills Street and Sigourney St. just below White Stadium in Franklin Park. MBTA: From the Green Street Station on the Orange Line exit to Green Street. Follow Green Street east (right) to Washington Street.. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Green Street Station on Orange Line,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5 For maps or information, please see http://www.mbta.com

Last updated on May 13, 2009