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KC Artist LINC Community Advisory Committee Awarded Grant to Implement Training and Professional Development Program
The Arts Council of Kansas City, in partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF), will launch a new artist-focused training and professional development program covering topics including strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, and technology.  The program is designed to serve 90 diverse, multidisciplinary, emerging, and established local artists over a two-year period.  Kansas City partners will also launch a website to link local artists with programs and services through a user-friendly database, and provide a supplemental call-in service to connect artists
Cleveland's Community Partnership for Arts and Culture announces a new fellowship program.

Last week, The Cleveland Free Times highlighted the current work being done by Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) on behalf of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture as an exciting new awards program reminiscent of the historical Works Progress Administration.

Art in America spotlights Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City:

"A supportive community of artists, respected museums, low rents and an innovative philanthropic apparatus are the big pluses of the Kansas City scene," writes Stephen Maine in the October issue of Art in America, featuring a 6-page "Report from Kansas City."

Calling Kansas City an emerging "cultural hub," the article calls attention to CFS's Awards for visual and generative perfroming artists, Urban Culture Project, and the new Art through Architecture program, a partnership with American Institute of Architects-KC.

LINC is proud to announce the launch of a new grant cycle of ARTOGRAPHY: Arts in a Changing America.

This unique program offers mid-sized arts organizations the opportunity to engage in a national dialogue about what it means to function at the intersection of evolving cultures and artistic expression.  ARTOGRAPHY offers general operating grants and other funding opportunities to qualified applicants.  LINC is now accepting preliminary proposals online at www.artsinachangingamerica.net.  Please visit the web site for complete guidelines and

Want up-to-date information about artists and health insurance coverage?

See the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s  most current analysis of health insurance rates among working artists in the United States.  Commissioned in 2008 by LINC, the Center conducted its analysis through examination of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey data.  Read the report, “Health Insurance Among Working Artists in the United States”.

In July 2008, LINC welcomed two new staff members to the organization.

Crista Farrell is LINC’s new Program Coordinator, Research and Development. She administers fundraising and development activities for the organization in addition to assisting with the national programs on artist space and health insurance for artists. Linda J. Park joins LINC as the Program Manager, Information and Knowledge, to oversee the organization’s online activities in order to help further generate the exchange of resources and best practices among the Creative Communities and LINC’s national programs.

LINC is delighted to announce the launch of our newly designed website.

Unveiled in September 2008, LINCnet.net features a streamlined new design along with updated content and resources for the national arts community. LINCnet.net is more accessible and user-friendly than ever before, while still providing in-depth information on artist space, health insurance/healthcare issues, as well as the activities of the Creative Communities across the country.