Meghan Martin

62% of creative workers are now unemployed because of the #coronavirus pandemic. Arts & culture need YOUR help to survive—urge Congress to extend Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance through the end of the year. Click here to contact your reps now: bit.ly/2B4J2wY

Arts and culture need YOUR help to survive this pandemic. Stand with me + @americans4arts as we ask Congress to support artists, arts organizations & creative workers in new #COVID19 relief legislation. Take two minutes to contact your reps now: bit.ly/30hoFp1

“As we rebuild the nation for which we stand, the artists of America kneel & kiss the ground. We let the beauty we love—the art we love, the nation we love—become what we do. We become America, the beautiful.” @guptaviolin Watch the 2020 #HanksLecture now! bit.ly/2BQImM7

We have the ability to acknowledge suffering as a way to connect to system reform and repair and a pathway to justice—thank you @paul_farber #AFTACON @Americans4Arts

A few #PublicArt mantras from #AFTACON Keynote: On Power and Participation: Public Art and Radical Visions Toward Justice, Repair, and Regrowth | Keynote Speaker Paul Farber, @Monument_Lab #ArtActivism #RacialEquity #Decolonize #Democratize

"Defining a neighborhood by its afflictions is a convenient excuse to erase it." @guptaviolin @Americans4Arts #HanksLecture

"In Skid Row, we were taught that listening is one sure act of love." Vijay Gupta is also founder of @Street_Symphony, an organization that works to lift up the stories and lives of people affected by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles. #HanksLecture #TheNextResponse

“How can we forgive the fragmenting wounds of the past as they continue to bleed into the present?” Vijay Gupta #HanksLecture #TheNextResponse

"Like the thread which unravels the tapestry of all grief, the pandemic of COVID and the deeper pandemic of racism have laid bare a fundamental brokenness." @guptaviolin #HanksLecture @Americans4Arts "We can't consume our way back into wholeness."

"We practice the relationships between us and our colleagues. We practice listening. We practice new conversations of accountability" @guptaviolin #HanksLecture "As artists have always done, we practice change. We practice evolution. We practice a human policy of connection."

“We are called because of our innate ability to respond”—thank you for the inspiration @guptaviolin #AFTACON @Americans4Arts

Here's @guptaviolin, setting the tone for his Nancy Hanks Lecture at #aftacon: "How can we forgive the dream of our nation built on genocide, built by stolen people on stolen land?"

We interrupt this feed to bring you peace and music. “Artists understand forgiveness.” Thank you Vijay Gupta for sharing your talent and words during @Americans4Arts annual conference #artsmatter #AFTAcon #hankslecture

@ShayChic @Americans4Arts Agreed! So many good choices!

“A failure to invest in the arts is a failure to invest in America’s future.” @SpeakerPelosi #AFTACON

Oh, hey Nance! @SpeakerPelosi #AFTACON

ITS TIME!

I love talking about the work we do at the @ArtsCouncilGL , but I suppose I am talking a bit more about being and artist myself and what that takes. Check it out! rebelpictures.net/the-magic-hour…

Learning from the @Americans4Arts team today. If you are an arts org or individual artist, they have amazing information and resources at Americansforthearts.org!

I suppose our Arts Advocacy Month at the @ArtsCouncilGL couldn’t have come at a better time. We are surviving this because #artiststhrive and they give us hope and they give us strength. I hope we continue to support them the way they are supporting us ❤️ #isupportthearts