New York Sun, November 16, 2004
SECTION: KNICKERBOCKER; Pg. 16
Campaign Calls Americans To Arts Action
by Gary Shapiro
At a Midtown press conference yesterday, Americans for the Arts Action Fund officially launched its national citizens' membership campaign. The campaign will enable and encourage individuals to champion the arts and arts education. The organization hopes to mobilize more than 100,000 citizen activists to promote arts friendly public politics at all levels of government.
and toward the end:
The chair of Americans for the Arts Fund's board, Ann Sheffer, said that in a country where many people "think Martha Graham is a snack cracker, the citizenry really hasn't had a voice. One group the campaign will try to reach, she said, were not just grass roots but "grass tops," that is, influential local leaders who sit on arts boards and local school education committees.Posted by Emily at November 18, 2004 08:27 PM