Join Over 775 Cultural Organizations and Creative Workers to Propose Plan for Putting Creative Workers to Work After Pandemic

Californians for the Arts, in partnership with Americans for the Arts and over 725 cultural organizations and creative workers, has proposed a 15-action national recovery strategy that the next Administration can use to put creative workers to work—activating the creative economy and drawing upon the creative energies of the country’s 5.1 million creative workers to energize Americans, reimagine how communities can thrive, and improve the lives of all.

Here are 5 actions you can take today:

  1. Endorse and promote AFTA’s comprehensive national recovery strategy: “To Rebuild and Reimagine the United States Post-Pandemic, We Must Put Creative Workers to Work”.

  2. Tell Your Fellow Creative Workers about the Creative Workforce Proposal. Click here to open up an editable template email that you can copy and paste into an email and adapt as you see fit. It has all the right links and all the information they’ll need to make an informed decision about endorsing the proposal for themselves!

  3. Promote the strategy on social media. Click here for a full social media toolkit that highlights the power of creativity using the words of Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Grace Lee Boggs.

  4. Send a Press Release or Write a Letter to Your Local Media. If you endorsed as an organization or creative business, use this template press release that you can adapt to share with your own local media. If you endorsed as an individual creative worker, to access a template Letter to the Editor via Americans for the Arts’ Voter Voice software, that you can adapt to send along to your local newspaper or other media outlet.

  5. Join the Arts Action Fund. Join the Americans for the Arts Action Fund for free!

Jade Elyssa Rivera