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The Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Network strives to keep its members informed and connected. Americans for the Arts maintains an Emerging Leader Listserv and dedicated website in order to update members about the activities and programs of the network. We also recognize that our members possess an enormous capacity to learn from each other. By facilitating both formal and informal interactions between members, this program works to create a national network of arts leaders. Whether through an upcoming event, newsletter article, or job posting, we’re constantly creating and maintaining programs to serve you.

Listserv
Looking for daily stimulation from other emerging leaders across the country? Have an urgent issue that you could really use some feedback on? Wondering which other emerging leaders out there love the same blogs that you do? Get all of this information and more by subscribing to the Emerging Leader Listserv. This is a professional membership benefit—subscribe here. Not a professional member? Read more about the benefits of joining Americans for the Arts.

Established Emerging Arts Leader Groups Across the Country
Every October, during National Arts and Humanities Month, the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council partners with emerging arts leaders nationwide to host Creative Conversations. Some of these local convenings have spiraled into cohesive, organized networks of local emerging leader groups—holding regular meetings and professional development workshops and building a thriving local network of professional affiliates in their communities. We want to create a resource for other emerging leaders to read the profiles of these grassroots groups and see how strong this growing network really is. If you are a local emerging leader group and want to submit your information to be included in this resource, contact the Manager of Professional Development.

2008 Professional Development Fund for Emerging Leaders of Color
Americans for the Arts has received support from the Joyce Foundation to re-grant Professional Development Funds to emerging arts leaders of color from the Great Lakes region. Grant dollars will be used to partially offset the costs for these selected emerging arts leaders to attend Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC (March 31–April 1, 2008), the Annual Convention in Philadelphia (June 20–22, 2008), and the National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) Conference in Houston (November 9–12, 2008).
For more information about this program, click here.