Citizen Artist Salon: The People's EPA: Art as a Strategy for Climate Justice

Citizen Artist Salon: The People's EPA: Art as a Strategy for Climate Justice

In this Citizen Artist Salon, we’ll get ready for the Global Climate Action Summit by hearing from leaders of three projects centering art to build power and confront the climate crisis—and we’ll discuss ways that we can all step up our creative action.

Revolution of Values

Revolution of Values

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.

Citizen Artist Salon: #HonorNativeLand

Citizen Artist Salon: #HonorNativeLand

The USDAC launched #HonorNativeLand, a campaign and call to action to spread the practice of acknowledging the original Native inhabitants of the land at the opening of all public gatherings. In this Salon, we’ll be joined by culture-bearers, leaders, and activists to discuss the practice of acknowledgment, how it fits into a larger framework of truth, decolonization, and reconciliation, and how to move beyond beyond acknowledgment in our organizations and communities.

Standing for Cultural Democracy: The USDAC’s Policy and Action Platform

Standing for Cultural Democracy: The USDAC’s Policy and Action Platform

We offer this platform to amplify ideas that can advance social healing and bring us closer to a future that countless Citizen Artists have told us they wish to inhabit: cultural democracy grounded in equity and engagement; full cultural citizenship, belonging without barrier; and deep respect for the right to culture—expression, participation, recognition—underpinning any just and caring society.