Organizing Spaces
Monthly opportunities to convene and connect.
Advocates meet with Rep. Will Guzzardi.
When we organize, we win.
Arts Alliance’s policy agenda, built with input from our statewide creative community, reflects the needs and demands of our sector. Now it’s up to us to win this agenda.
Starting summer 2025, we’re convening three virtual monthly gatherings to get trained on organizing basics and discuss coordinated action around our shared goals. Each group brings together folks interested in taking action for the arts based on a unique geographic or policy focus.
Curious about how to get involved in arts advocacy? These gatherings are a welcoming place to meet others who care about the same issues you do and come together in coordinated action. No experience required!
Whether you’re from the city, the plains, or the river towns, there’s a place for you here.
Organizing Spaces
Chicago Arts Budget & Infrastructure
Our collective actions will focus on protecting and growing public investment in the arts through engagement with Chicago’s budget process and fostering relationships between the creative sector, city government, and beyond.
Suburban Cook County Creative Ecosystem
Building infrastructure and support for suburban Cook artists and creative organizations through engaging with Cook County government and building suburban networks of power and connection between creative professionals.
Statewide Arts & Arts Education
Local advocacy, legislative strategy, and grassroots mobilizing for statewide arts policy and arts education policy wins, with a focus this year on the statewide arts indicator.
How to Join
Each of our three organizing spaces meets monthly on Thursdays. Use the interest form to share which space you’d like to join, and we’ll let you know when the next session is.
We’ll also regularly communicate with our network about upcoming gatherings, including training and topics we’ll cover that month. Sign up to receive our communications.
Questions? Contact Director of Community Organizing Bindu Poroori.