On August 22, Mary McCullough-Hudson, Board Member at Americans for the Arts and President/CEO of ArtsWave, announced her intent to retire as CEO at the end of the current fiscal year in August 2014. Alecia Kitner, currently Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ArtsWave, is expected to be promoted as President and COO. McCullough-Hudson will continue as Chief Executive Officer.

Today Americans for the Arts announced those companies selected by the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) as The BCA 10: Best Companies Supporting the Arts in America for 2013. This honor recognizes ten U.S. companies for their exceptional commitment to the arts through grants, local partnerships, volunteer programs, matching gifts, sponsorships and board membership.

The 2013 BCA 10 honorees are:

The NABE Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) is awarding its sixth annual Americans for the Arts scholarship to encourage the integration of the arts into the economic education process. We believe that good economic strategy is inherently dependent on our ability to come up with out-of-the box solutions to the challenges that we now face.

Every year, Americans for the Arts recognizes artists and arts leaders who exhibit exemplary national leadership and whose work demonstrates extraordinary artistic achievement with the National Arts Awards. This year's recipients are...

Americans for the Arts has joined the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) leadership team revising the national voluntary learning standards for dance, music, theatre, visual arts and media arts for grades preK-12. The new standards will be released in March, 2014.

It's election season here at Americans for the Arts! Nominate yourself or a colleague to become a member of one of our four Network Councils: Arts Education, Emerging Leaders, Private Sector, and Public Art Network.

October 1, 2014 marked the first day of National Arts and Humanities Month, and Americans for the Arts celebrated in formal fashion with the 2014 BCA10 Gala honoring this year's top 10 businesses partnering with the arts. Our list of 2014 BCA10 honorees can be found here - stay tuned for photos from the event!

In 2019, the 15th anniversary year of the BCA 10 awards program, Americans for the Arts is excited to unveil a new name and look for the awards which shall be known in future as the Arts and Business Partnership Awards. We are honored to announce the 2019 awardees, who will be celebrated at a gala in New York City in October.

Americans for the Arts mourns the loss of Henry W. Bloch, co-founder of H&R block and avid champion for the arts, who tirelessly engaged businesses with the arts to ensure the arts may be enjoyed by all. He died on April 23 at age 96.

As work continues in the field to find stronger ways to support and connect leaders of color in the sector, Americans for the Arts is pleased to announce the recent addition of a Facebook group to augment the programming planned for the Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Network.

United Arts Funds are private organizations that raise money for the arts, work to broaden support for the arts, encourage arts attendance and participation, promote excellence in the arts and arts management, and ensure that arts organizations are financially stable.

Began in 2015 by the International Sculpture Center, IS Day is an annual celebration event held worldwide to further the ISC’s mission of advancing the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society.

In the spirit of advancing field dialogue, Americans for the Arts and the Barr Foundation are happy to share “Programs Supporting Art in the Public Realm: A National Field Scan,” which highlights overarching themes and offers snapshots of 28 programs that are supporting and building capacity for artists to work in the public realm.

From April 1 through May 31, 2019, Imagery Winery will donate $2 of every bottle of its wine sold in restaurants and bars (up to $15,000) to Americans for the Arts.