Advocacy
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CAA at Arts Advocacy Day
May 2008
Delegates representing CAA participated in this year's Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, held March 31-April 1, 2008.
Artists-Museum Partnership Act
April 2008
The Artists-Museum Partnership Act now has a record thirty supporters in the Senate; eighty-eight members in the House of Representatives support the bill, which also surpasses previous support.
Participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil
March 2008
Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) and Donny George, former director of the Iraq Museum and former president of the Iraq State Board of Antiquities, invite you to participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
Fisk Museum Barred from Selling Artworks
February 2008
A Tennessee judge has barred Fisk University from selling works of art from its Stieglitz Collection. For two years, university officials have been trying to sell paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and more in hopes of raising millions of dollars to help the financially troubled school.
Dia Art Foundation Fights Proposed Oil Drilling Near Spiral Jetty
February 2008
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) is threatened by an application to drill exploratory boreholes in Utah's Great Salt Lake for oil exploration by Pearl Montana Exploration and Production. Drilling would take place within five miles of internationally renowned earthwork.
President's Budget Requests $271,246,000 for IMLS
February 2008
President Bush's budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2009 seeks $271,246,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Service. The request represents an increase of $26,023,000, or 10.6 percent, over the FY 2008 enacted level for the institute's programs and administration.
Arts Advocacy Day and Humanities Advocacy Day
January 2008
As a national cosponsor of Arts Advocacy Day and Humanities Advocacy Day, CAA encourages its members to participate in one or both of these important advocacy events, held annually in Washington, DC.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Copyright Case
January 2008
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Kahle v. Ashcroft, brought by Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance founders Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger in 2003, which challenged the constitutionality of the current copyright regime.