All three of our National Arts Marketing Project Conference keynotes have been announced, and it's quite the lineup.

Don't miss the chance to hear all-around pop culture expert Steve Stoute, internationally acclaimed contemporary movement artist Elizabeth Streb, and artist/successful entrepreneur Sha Hwang!

Americans for the Arts acknowledges with great sadness the loss of former U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont today.  He was the co-founder of the Congressional Arts Caucus, Senate Cultural Caucus, and of the Congressional High School Art Competition, a bi-partisan program that celebrates the talents of local high school students in Congressional districts across America.

From August to September of this year, the Boston Arts Commission has commissioned eight temproary artworks to be installed at variouis intervals in the Roxbury neighborhodd of Boston. Artists range from high school students to emerging college studnets and locally-based artists. The artworks reference the history of Boston and the future of the city.

In Lafayette, Indiana public art is springing up in the West. Local artists Alexandria Monik and Aaron Bumgarner will be creating art that responds to their surroundings in the West Lafayette neighborhood. Monik takes on refurbishing a dilpated and closed bar by creating storyboard paintings on the shuttered windows and doors of the building.