Local Arts Agencies in Indiana

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INTRODUCTION

In the United States, the arts, culture, and humanities sector plays an important role in the

enrichment, education, and economic development of communities. Over 100,000 public

charities belong to the sector, representing just over 10% of all public charities in 2010 (National

Center for Charitable Statistics). Organizations in this sector include museums, symphony

orchestras, opera companies, arts alliances, radio and television stations, singing and choral

groups, and art galleries a wide variety of organizations that contribute greatly to the landscape

of our communities. A subsector of this sector is local arts agencies defined by Americans for

the Arts as a community organization or an agency of local government that supports cultural

organizations, provides services to artists and/or arts organizations, and presents arts

programming to the public (Americans for the Arts: Arts Facts, 2010). In this paper, I will

focus primarily on the local arts agencies subsector, drawing specific examples from the

Tippecanoe Arts Federation and other Indiana local arts agencies. I will examine the size, scope,

and composition of this sector and subsector and look at how local arts agencies relate to the

government and for-profit sectors, to each other, to nonprofits in other subsectors, and to

individuals and informal groups. Finally, I will discuss some challenges that this subsector is

likely to face in the next three to five years and offer some ideas about ways that these arts

organizations might successfully meet and overcome these challenges.

SIZE, SCOPE, AND COMPOSITION OF SECTOR AND SUBSECTOR

The arts, culture, and humanities sector represents only a small share of the total

nonprofit activity in the United States, but the sector has grown rapidly over the past twenty

years (Weitzman, et. al.2002). In 2010, the sector contained 102,146 public charities (National

Center for Charitable Statistics, 2011) and generated more than $24 billion in revenues, with


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only a 2.3% share of total revenues generated by all nonprofits (National Center for Charitable

Statistics, The Nonprofit Sector in Brief, 2007). Nonprofit cultural organizations are unique in

that they rely more on individual donations and volunteering and less on government grants and

contracts than nonprofits in other sectors (DiMaggio, 2006). A 2000 study by The Urban

Institute found that 41% of revenue in the sector came from private contributions; 29% from fees

for goods and services; 10% from government grants; 6% from investment income; and 14%

from other sources.

Despite the relatively small size of the sector compared to other sectors, the arts, cultural,

and humanities sector has a huge economic impact in the United States. A 2007 report from

Americans for the Arts indicates that the sector generates more than $166 billion in economic

activity every year, resulting in $29.6 billion in federal, state, and local tax revenue (Americans

for the Arts, Economic Impact). The report also found that the sector generates 5.7 million full-

time equivalent jobs (Americans for the Arts, Economic Impact, 2007).

The scope of organizations in the sector is quite varied in size and type from small

community theaters to large metropolitan art museums. The sector is important because it

enriches the communities we live in, deepens our understanding of our culture and heritage,

educates and provides therapy, and provides a way for people and organizations to express their

interests and beliefs (SPEA-V 521, Group 3, 2012). Organizations include art studios, cultural

museums, music halls, choral ensembles, ballet companies, and arts advocacy groups. Because

of the many and varied impacts caused by groups in this sector, its scope is quite large and hard

to quantify.

The local arts agencies subsector of the arts, culture, and humanities sector focuses on the

promotion of the arts and cultural programming. In the past fifty years, local arts agencies


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(LAAs) have grown in number from 400 to more than 5,000 (Americans for the Arts, Arts

Facts). Of the estimated 5,000 LAAs in the United States, 75% are private nonprofit

organizations and 25% are public agencies of a city or county government (Americans for the

Arts, Local Arts Agencies). According to Americans for the Arts, the majority of LAAs are

involved in cultural planning, grantmaking, services to artists and arts organizations, facility

management, and community cultural planning (Americans for the Arts, Local Arts Agencies).

The economic impact of LAAs is felt through employment, grantmaking to arts

organizations and individuals, and cultural tourism drivers. Although the total number of staff

members is hard to discern, the 2010 Census of Local Arts Agencies found that 58% of LAAs

have at least one paid, full-time employee and 42% of LAAs are entirely volunteer-staffed or

have only part-time, paid employees (Americans for the Arts, Local Arts Agencies). Nationally,

two-thirds of these agencies are grantmakers (Americans for the Arts, Local Arts Agencies).

Grants may include funding to individual artists for fellowships and public arts commissions as

well as general operating support, project grants, and planning grants to non-profit arts

organizations.

There are 72 local arts agencies in Indiana. Appendix A is a chart listing all local arts

agencies in Indiana and Appendix B is a map of the LAAs in Indiana. Of the 72 agencies, sixty-

three are nonprofit organizations and nine are public agencies or commissions of city or county

government. There are 48,887 Hoosiers employed full-time in arts-related jobs (Indiana Arts

Commission, 2010). There are 102.5 full-time equivalent jobs in the LAAs. Most of the LAAs

in Indiana undertake arts programming and arts events and many operate galleries and arts and

cultural centers. Seventeen LAAs give grants (or 24%), with eleven of those seventeen being

regional arts partners with the Indiana Arts Commission, granting federal and state funds.


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Nationally, 67% of LAAs reported that they provide financial support in the form of grants

(Americans for the Arts, Local Arts Agencies).

A caveat as I summarize this data is the possible unreliability of data about this sector and

subsector. As DiMaggio points out, institutional factors render some organizations more likely

to be counted than others (p. 433). The fact that many arts and cultural organizations are quite

small and that many are embedded within churches, universities, and other nonprofit

organizations with broader mandates makes many of them invisible as statistical data is gathered.

(DiMaggio, 2006, p.433). An example is the Athens of Indiana Studio and Gallery in

Crawfordsville, Indiana. The organization was started and is still functioning as a program of

Crawfordsville Main Street (which is a community development organization in the advocacy

sector). It must also be recognized that it is difficult to gather current data about nonprofits

organizations. By the time studies are completed and results are released, the information is out-

of-date.

As I researched information to compile the chart at Appendix A, I found it to be very

difficult to quantify data about organizations to determine whether or not they are truly a local

arts agency. For example, the Honeywell Center (http://www.honeywellcenter.org/), located in

Wabash, Indiana (Noble County), includes a restaurant with a teaching kitchen, a performing arts

center, and a gallery. I determined that the Center is not a LAA because, while they do arts

community outreach projects, their primary focus is promotion of the programs at the Center.

This conclusion may be incorrect because Noble County is a small county and the center appears

to be the only arts driver in the community. Many communities also have visitors/tourism

bureaus, Main Street and economic development organizations, and government agencies that

undertake the task of promoting arts events, procuring space in downtown buildings for art
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exhibit, and developing arts events to drive economic development. Although visitors bureaus

promote events in the community, not many create events or provide services to artist and arts

organizations. The Rising Sun/Ohio County Tourism Commission developed and maintains a

website, Arts in Rising Sun: Arts as Economics", develops arts events, and provides services to

artists in the community. For this reason, I included it as a LAA while other visitors/tourism

bureaus were not included. Finally, determining the number of employees was also difficult.

While websites, telephone calls, and IRS Forms 990 provide some information, arts

organizations that do arts programming often have many contract employees that are not

identified in these sources.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES RELATIONSHIPS

Local arts agencies exist, at least in part, due to the failure of government and the market

to provide the level of arts programming, funding, and oversight demanded by arts consumers

and necessary for the successful promotion of the arts. When government provides collective

goods, what one citizen consumes is automatically consumed by all (Steinberg, 2006, p.122).

There is no opportunity for government to adapt goods to diversity of opinion or to offer goods

at levels demanded by those who want more (Steinberg, p.122). In the area of the arts, these

facts lead to a failure of government to please all arts consumers.

Similarly, the market fails to provide arts opportunities at adequate levels. Viewed as a

public or collective good, the arts are unique in that they are excludable but also nonrival.

(Steinberg, p. 121). A theater performance can be enjoyed equally by ten audience members or

250 audience members, but the for-profit providers necessarily set ticket prices at levels that

exclude some interested in seeing a production in order to be profitable. The market, therefore,

fails to provide art opportunities to all interested consumers. In addition, the market will fail to


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provide arts opportunities that interest only a few consumers as it is not profitable to do so. The

result is the underprovision of these collective goods.

In light of government failure, local arts agencies exist to provide and promote the arts to

everyone. Local arts agencies and government collaborate when LAAs function as a conduit for

state and federal funding for the arts to community arts organizations. In Indiana, the Indiana

Arts Commission (IAC) receives grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and funds

through state appropriations. The IAC then provides federal and state funds to its eleven

regional arts partners to distribute to local arts organizations and to help fund administration of

these grants. Through their grantmaking, LAAs can provide support for artists, art forms, and

artistic expressions that government itself, for political reasons, could not fund directly. As

Prewitt notes, direct government support for unpopular forms of artistic expression would

indicate official approval of these expressions that the majority of Americans may not condone

(2006, p. 358). LAAs can also provide greater oversight of the use of grant funds than remote

government agencies could provide, serving a function that government has failed to serve

effectively. As Steinberg notes, government cannot regulate abuses it cannot detect

(Steinberg, p. 122). In these ways, LAAs function where government has failed or cannot act.

It is important to note that some local arts agencies are in fact public agencies. In

Indiana, there are nine LAAs that are an agency of county or municipal government (Appendix

A). These LAAs are formed by local ordinance or proclamation to serve their local

communities. They have appointed board members and receive funding from the creating

governmental body. All of these LAAs are not membership organizations like the public

nonprofit organizations; but organizations like the Jasper County Arts Commission have separate

organization, Friends of the Arts, that raises money for the commission (Appendix A).


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In addition to responding to government failure, LAAs often respond to a failure of the

market when they serve as direct providers of arts programming. Providing arts opportunities to

small groups or niche markets fill a cultural void resulting from the nonprofitability of these

programs and the resulting failure of the market to provide such programming. LAAs also fill a

market void through funding and promotion of the arts in local communities. These agencies are

uniquely situated to know and understand the local markets through their contacts with direct

providers in the communities.

Local arts agencies often look to the for-profit sector for financial support. Corporations

and other business entities make donations directly to LAAs to support their work, serve as

sponsors or partners for LAAs programs and events, and provide supplies and volunteers for

arts events and programming. As businesses donate to LAAs, they receive a tax deduction for

their contributions and a resulting benefit to their bottom line. These partnerships between

LAAs and the for-profit sector are mutually beneficial and form the basis for successful

collaboration (Young & Salamon, 2002, p. 429).

Local arts agencies that own and operate galleries or provide direct arts programming can

find themselves in competition with for-profit corporations. In La Porte, LAA South Shore Arts

owns and operates an art gallery that competes with for-profit galleries such as the La Porte

based Thaddeus C. Gallery. In Lafayette, the Tippecanoe Arts Federation provides art

instructional classes, as does the for-profit corporation Red Poppy Studios & Gallery. Although

LAAs may also support theaters and other arts group that compete directly with for-profit

businesses, LAAs generally have a collaborative, mutually beneficial relationship with the for-

profit sector.


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Local arts agencies, by their nature, serve local areas cities, towns, counties, and multi-

county regions. Their service areas generally do not overlap so there is little competition

between LAAs. These agencies cooperate with each other to share ideas and resources, to

promote each others events and programs, and to promote arts and culture generally. When

they see a gap in the landscape, they have also collaborated to form new nonprofits, including the

arts advocacy organization Indiana Coalition for the Arts (T. Lee, personal communication,

2012), which advocates for public funding and policy favorable to the arts

(www.inartscoalition.org).

Local arts agencies have relationships with other nonprofit organizations, some of which

are members of the LAA. Many LAAs make grants to other arts organizations for operational

support and programming. In this way, they collaborate with other subsectors within the arts,

culture, and humanities sector. LAAs also form relationships with organizations in other sectors.

Communities have come to recognize the importance of the arts to economic development. As

Americans for the Arts found, the nonprofit arts industry is the cornerstone of tourism

(Americans for the Arts, Economic Impact); and LAAs are in a prime position to act as

marketers of a community (Hager & Sung, 2011, p. 9). LAAs have partnered with chambers of

commerce, economic development corporations and organizations, and tourism bureaus and

commissions to promote economic development through the arts.

Local art agencies also have important relationships with individuals and informal

groups. Most LAAs are membership organizations that solicit dues from individuals and groups

annually for memberships. Some members are driven to join for personal gain because these

memberships may provide significant benefits for members such as access to grants and/or artist

fellowships given by the LAA (Tschirhart, 2006, p. 528), the ability to display artworks in the
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LAAs gallery, access to educational programs provided by the LAA, and opportunities to meet

fellow artists in the community. Some members join for purely altruistic reasons to support the

public work of the organization (Leete, 2006, p. 170). Finally, some members join because they

personally enjoy the arts and wish to see that the arts remain a vital part of their communities,

reasons that are both altruistic and personal.

Local art agencies often rely heavily on volunteers. As the chart at Appendix A

indicates, only 39% of LAAs in Indiana have paid staff members. Volunteers assist with the

daily work of these organizations, as well as with special projects and programs, fundraising, and

promotion and serve as directors and advisory council members. These volunteers are critical

not only to the work of these organizations but also to their very existence. Informal groups such

as retired art teachers, music teachers, homeschoolers, or retired or soon-to-be retired baby

boomers are also tapped by LAAs as sources for volunteer recruitment.

Like all nonprofits, LAAs depend to some extent on private donations to fulfill their

missions. These donations may come in the form of memberships without benefits, gifts of cash,

services, or materials, or financial support to capital projects or to an endowment to secure the

organizations future. Like other nonprofits, LAAs must be careful to maintain control of their

operations and remain true to their mission in the face of donors who may expect special

treatment or too much control in exchange for their contributions.

The relationships that LAAs have with all of these groups have changed over the years

and continue to be fluid relationships. As government funding declined, the LAAs have been

forced to look for funding elsewhere. New relationships or stronger relationships were formed

with the for-profit sector and private donors. When all lost revenue could not be replaced, LAAs

have had fewer dollars to grant to local agencies, impacting their relationships with these local


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providers. In addition, LAAs have had fewer dollars to devote to providing direct programming,

changing their relationships with other program providers. As the number of LAAs grew in this

country, competition increased for members, donations and volunteers. This competition

sparked collaborations with other nonprofits in the arts, humanities, and culture sector as well as

other nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The next three to five years may be a particularly challenging time for local art agencies.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has already announced his intention if elected to

significantly cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (Boehm, 2011). With

financial concerns already weighing heavily on those leading arts organizations, the future may

look bleak. The good news may be that fewer resources in the agencies may lead to effective

long-term partnerships with other organizations that will be mutually beneficial. In places like

Richmond, Virginia, the LAA has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce for a unique

exhibition of corporate art collections never before exhibited and for an issues-related event that

brought together leaders from business, art, and local government to discuss a prospective

downtown arts district and the citys percentage for arts ordinance (Bryan, 2012). The result was

affirmation among all who participated that the arts can be strategically vital tools for economic

development (Bryan, 2012)

Funding cuts have also lead LAAs to seek funding from sources never explored before

and to ask for money in different ways. Some have asked vendors with which they had long-

standing relationships for discounts on good and services (Haller, 2009). Others have gone to

their donors, told them their financial story, and obtained larger contributions than normally

given. Financial crises have also led to new partnerships and collaborations through which all


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the future. The challenge for LAAs and other nonprofits will be to be able to afford to hire these

highly educated, professional individuals to run their organizations.

Local arts agencies sometimes partner with government for cultural planning. It is

expected that the trend we are seeing for more and more organizations (both nonprofit and for-

profit) to become involved in cultural planning will continue into the future. As this happens,

LAAs will be challenged to compete with these organizations to effectively and efficiently

provide services to remain a key player in cultural planning. Similarly, as more LAAs become

involved in economic development efforts, they will be challenged to collaborate and, when

necessary, to compete with other organizations involved with economic development. A key to

meeting these challenges will be for LAAs to articulate clearly and perhaps loudly the economic

impact of the arts community development generally and economic development specifically.

Local arts agencies in Indiana have an ongoing funding challenge. In spite of the fact

that many Indiana counties have a local arts agency, Indiana ranks 43rd in the nation in per capita

state and federal public funding for the arts (Indiana Arts Commission, 2010). LAAs will be

challenged in the future to advocate more effectively on the federal and state levels for funding

for the arts.

Finally, the challenge will continue for local arts agencies that serve larger geographical

areas to reach everyone in their areas, particularly the more rural communities across our nation.

TAF and many other LAAs seek to accomplish this outreach through advisory boards consisting

of members from all the areas they serve (Lee, 2012). By bringing together individuals with

specific knowledge about cities, towns, and rural communities, the LAAs hope to more

effectively ascertain the needs and interests of their constituents and bring them programs and

resources that they need to promote the arts to all.


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Appendix A

Local Arts Agencies (LAAs) in Indiana

April 27, 2012

Red: Counties may have LAA

Grey: Counties with no LAA

Blue: Public agency of city or county government

Green: Indiana Arts Commission Arts Partner 1

County

Number

Name of

County Cou nty Seat N am e o f Local A rts A gency

Number of

Employees Major Programs

Grant-

making

Membership

Organization Website

IAC

Region Notes

1 Adams Decatur North Adams Arts Council, Inc. 3

Represented by Arts United of Greater

Fort Wayne

2 Allen Fort Wayne Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne 16

Grantmaking

Facilities Management (gallery,

performance arts centers)

Arts Programming

Arts Events

Provide Services to Artists and Arts

Organizations

Give Arts Awards Yes Yes

http://www.artsunited.

org/ 3 Region 3 Partner

3 Bartholomew Columbus Columbus Area Arts Council 7

Grantmaking

Arts Programming

Cultural Planning

Ticket Sales Yes No

http://www.artsincolu

mbus.org/caac/ 9 Region 9 Partner

4 Benton Fowler 4

Represented by the Tippecanoe Arts

Federation

5 Blackford Hartford City Hartford City Arts Council 0 Arts Events No No 5

Arts Place (Portland) recently helped

to open the Blackford County Arts

Center

6 Boone Lebanon

Lebanon Community Arts Council of

Indiana 0

Online Creative Writing Corner

Calendar/Promotion No Yes

http://www.lebanonart

scouncil.net/ 7

7 Brown Nashville Art Alliance of Brown County 0.5

Arts Events


Organizations

Promotion No Yes

http://www.artalliance

browncounty.com/ 8

8 Carroll Delphi 4


Federation

9 Cass Logansport Cass County Arts Alliance 0Arts AwardsArts Events

Yes (to

fourpartners) Yes

http://www.casscountyarts.org/ 4

Fundraising arm for four-organization

partnership with a mission to promote

arts activities that enhance the quality

of life in the communities of CassCounty

9 Cass Logansport Logansport Art Association 0.5


Organizations

Arts Events

Arts Programming

Facility Management (gallery) No Yes

http://www.logansport

artassociation.org/5401

.html 4

10 Clark Jeffersonville 12

Represented by the Arts Council of

Southern Indiana

11 Clay Brazil 6 Represented by the Arts Illiana

12 Clinton Frankfort 4


Federation

Frankfort Public Library is a cultural

center that offers arts programming


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Appendix A


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

13 Crawford English

Crawford County Arts and Crafts

Assocation 0

Arts Events

Facility Management (gallery)

Arts Programming

Scholar

ships Yes 12

14 Daviess Washington 10

Represented by Vanderburgh

Community Foundation

15 Dearbor n Lawrencebur g Dearbor n Hi ghlands Arts Counci l Inc. 1

Arts Programming

Arts Events


Organizations No Yes

http://all4art.org/defau

lt.aspx 9

16 Decatur Greensburg

Arts and Cultural Council of Decatur

County 1

Arts Events

Arts Awards

Scholar

ships Yes

http://www.greensburgchamber.com/biz/acc

dc/ 9

17 Dekalb Auburn 3


Fort Wayne

18 Delaware Muncie Muncie Arts and Culture Council 0.5

Cultural Planning

Promotion/Calendar No No

http://www.munciedo

wntown.us/Arts/macc.

html 5

19 Dubois Jasper Jasper County Arts Commission 6.5

Arts Programming


Ticket Sales

Arts Events No

Friends of

the Arts

http://www.jasperindia

na.gov/default.cfm 10

20 Elkhart Goshen Elkhart Art League 0 Arts Programming No Yes

http://www.ealonline.o

rg/membership.htm 2

21 Fayette Connersville a.i. - Artists Inititive 0 Arts Events No Yes 5

22 Floyd New Albany Arts Council of Southern Indiana 1

Arts Events



http://artscouncilsi.org

/# 12

23 Fountain Covington 4


Federation

24 Franklin Brookville Franklin County Arts Council 0

Arts Events

Promotion No No

http://www.facebook.c

om/groups/135212437

422/ 9

25 Fulton Rochester Akron Area Arts League, Ltd. 0

Arts Events

Arts Programming No Yes 2

26 Gibson Princeton 10

Arts council recently dissolved and

created a fund for scholarships at the

Gibson County Community Foundation



27 Grant Marion Grant County Art Association, Inc. 0

Arts Programming

Arts Events

Scholar

ships Yes 5

28 Green Bloomfield Greene County Arts Council 0 Arts Events No Yes 8

29 Hamilton Noblesville Carmel Arts Council 1

Promotions

Arts Events

Grantmaking Yes Yes

http://www.carmelarts

council.org 7


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

29 Hamilton Noblesville Fishers Art Council 0

Arts Event

Promotion



http://www.fishersarts

council.org/ 7

29 Hamilton Noblesville Noblesville Cultural Arts Commission 0

Arts Events

Arts Programming

Scholar

ships Yes

http://www.noblesville

arts.org/home.html 7

29 Ha mi lt on Noblesv il le Ham il to n Count y Ar ti sts ' As soc ia tion 0

Arts Events

Arts Programming

Promotions/Calendar

Provide Services to Artists and ArtsOrganizations

Facility Management (cultural arts

center) No Yes

http://www.hcaa-

in.org/index.php 7

30 Hancock Greenfield Hancock County Arts Council 0 Art Events No Yes

http://www.hancockco

untyarts.com/ 7

31 Harrison Corydon Harrison County Arts! 0


Arts Programming


Organizations

Arts Events No Yes

http://www.harrison-

county-arts-

corydon.net/ 12

32 Hendricks Danville Hedricks County Arts Council 1


Arts Programming

Artists Services

Arts Events

Scholar

ships Yes

http://centralindianaar

tists.com/ 7

32 Hendricks Danville Public Arts Committee Public Art No No 7

33 Henry New Castle Art Association of Henry County, Inc. 5

34 Howard Kokomo Kokomo Art Association 0

Arts Events


Organizations

Serve as Collection Guardians

Scholar

ships Yes

http://www.kaaonline.

com/main/ 4 Focus on art, not music, etc.

35 Huntington Huntington LaFontaine Arts Council 0 Arts Programming No No

http://www.lafontaine

artscouncil.org/ 3

35 Huntington Huntington Roanoke Arts Council 0 Arts Events

Scholar

ships No

http://www.renaissanc

einroanoke.org/ 3

36 Jackson Brownstown 9

Represented by the Columbus County

Arts Festival

37 Jasper Rensselaer Prairie Arts Council 0.5

Arts Events

Arts Programming


http://www.prairiearts

council.com/ 4
http://www.hcaa-in.org/index.phphttp://www.hcaa-in.org/index.phphttp://www.hcaa-in.org/index.phphttp://www.hcaa-in.org/index.php


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

38 Jay Portland Arts Place, Inc. 6

Arts Events

Arts Programming


Organizations

Cultural Planning

Public Art

Facility Management (theater,

galleries, studios)

Box Office No Yes

http://www.artsland.or

g 5

39 Jefferson Madison Madison Art Club 0

Arts EventsProvide Services to Artists and Arts

Organizations


https://sites.google.co

m/site/artclubofmadiso

nindiana/welcome 12

39 Jefferson Madison

Community Arts Program at Hanover

College 1

Arts Events

Facility Management (arts center)


Organizations

Grantmaking Yes No

http://www.hanover.e

du/arts/cas 12 Region 12 Arts Partner

40 Jennings Vernon Jennings County Arts Council 9

41 Johnson Franklin Greater Greenwood Arts Council 0

Public Art

Arts Events No Yes

http://www.greenwoo

darts.org 7 Founded in 2009

42 Knox Vincennes Northwest Territory Art Guild 0

Arts Events


Arts Programming No Yes 10

43 Kosciusko Warsaw Lakeland Art Association 0


Arts Programming



http://www.lakelandart

association.org/ 2

44 LaGrange LaGrange 3


Fort Wayne

45 Lake Crown Point Greater Gary Arts Council, Inc. 1

45 Lake Crown Point Hobart Arts League, Inc. 0

Arts Programming


http://www.hobartarts.

com/ 1

46 La Porte La Porte South Shore Arts 11

Grantmaking

Arts Events

Arts Programming


Organizations

Facility Management (gallery, art

center, gift shop) Yes Yes

http://www.southshore

artsonline.org/ 1 Region 1 Arts Partner

47 Lawrence Bedford Lawrence County Art Association 0



Organizations

Arts Events No Yes

http://www.lawrencec

ountyart.org/index.htm

l 8

48 Madison Anderson 5

Represented by the Community

Foundation of Randolph County


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

49 Marion Indianapolis The Irvington Guild of Artists 0

Arts Events

Promotion No Yes

http://www.irvingtonar

t.blogspot.com/ 7

49 Marion Indianapolis Southport Artistry Committee 0

Arts Events

Promotion/Calendar No No

http://www.cityofsouth

portarts.org/home.htm

l 7

49 Marion Indianapolis Arts Council of Indianapolis 13

Arts Events

Promotion

Facility Management (gallery, arts

center)

Public ArtsProvide Services to Artists and Arts

Organizations Yes No

http://www.artscouncil

ofindianapolis.org/ 7

49 Marion Indianapolis Indiana Arts Commission 10


Organizations

Grantmaking

Arts Awards

Administer Indiana Cultural Districts

Program Yes No

http://www.in.gov/arts

/ 7 Region 7 Partner

50 Marshall Plymouth 2


Foundation of St. Joseph County

51 Martin Shoals 8

Represented by Ivy Tech Community

College of Indiana - Bloomington

Campus

52 Miami Peru 3


Fort Wayne

53 Monroe Bloomington Bloomington Area Arts Council 8

Sold Walden Arts Center to the City of

Bloomington in 2010. Not sure if they

are still operating as a nonprofit

53 Monroe Bloomington City of Bloomington Arts Commission 1.5

Public Art

Grantmaking

Operate Bloomington Entertainment

and Arts District Yes No

http://visitbead.com/

http://bloomington.in.g

ov/sections/viewSectio

n.php?s ection _id=14 0 8

53 Monroe Bloomington

Ivy Tech Community College-

Bloomington 6

Facility Management (arts center)

Grantmaking

Arts Programming


Organizations Yes Yes

http://www.ivytech.ed

u/bloomington/waldro

n/index.html 8 Region 8 Arts Partner

54 Montgomery Crawfordsvi ll e Ar t League of Montgomery County 0 Arts Events

Scholar

ships Yes

http://artleaguemc.org

/index2.html 4

55 Morgan Martinsville 8

Represented by Ivy Tech Community

College of Indiana - Bloomington

Campus

56 Newton Kentland 4


Federation

57 Noble Albion 3


Fort Wayne


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

58 Ohio Rising Sun

Rising Sun / Ohio County Tourism

Commission


Organizations

Maintanence of Website "Arts in Rising

Sun: Arts as Economics" No No

http://www.enjoyrising

sun.com/ 9

59 Orange Paoli Orange County HomeGrown Arts 0

Arts Events

Murals No

http://www.orangecou

ntyhomegrown.org/art

s.htm 8

60 Owen Spencer Owen County Art Guild, Inc. 0

Arts Events

Arts Programming

Provide Services to Artists and ArtsOrganizations


http://www.owencountyartguild.org/index.htm

l 8

61 Parke Rockville Covered Bridge Art Association 0

Arts Events


Arts Programming

Scholar

ships Yes

http://www.coveredbri

dgeartgallery.com/inde

x.html 6

62 Perry Cannelton Tell City Regional Arts Association 0

Arts Programming

Arts Events No Yes

http://www.tcraa.org/

Home_Page.php 10

63 Pike Petersburg 10



64 Porter Valpariso 1

Represented by South Shore Arts

65 Posey Mt. Vernon 10



66 Pulaski Winamac 4


Federation

67 Putnam Greencastle 6 Represented by Arts Illiana

68 Randolph Winchester

Art Association of Randolph County,

Inc. 1

Arts Events

Arts Programming

Facility Management (arts center) No Yes

http://www.artsdepot.

org 5

68 Randolph Winchester

Community Foundation of Randolph

County 1

Grantmaking



http://www.randolphc

ount yfound ation.org/ 5 Reg ion 5 Ar ts P ar tner

69 Ripley Versailles Rural Alliance For The Arts 1

Arts Events

Arts Programming


Organizations

Scholar

ships Yes

http://www.ruralallianc

earts.com/ 9

70 Rush Rushville 5



71 St. Joseph South Bend

Community Foundation of St. Joseph

County 1.5

Operates ArtsEverywhere.com website

Promotion

Grantmaking Yes No http://cfsjc.org/ 2 Region 2 Arts Partner

72 Scott Scottsburg 12

Represented by the Community Arts

Program at Hanover College

73 Shelby Shelbyville Shelby Arts Alliance 0

Arts Events

Promotion/Calendar No Yes

http://shelbyartsallianc

e.org/ 7

74 Spencer Rockport Cultural Arts of Spencer County 10


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

75 Starke KnoxStarke County Fine Arts Commission

2

Represented by Community

Foundation of St. Joseph County

76 Steuben Angola 3


Fort Wayne

77 Sullivan Sullivan 6 Represented by Arts Illiana

78 Switzerland Vevay 9

Represented by Columbus Area Arts

Council

79 Tippecanoe Lafayette Tippecanoe Arts Federation 5

Arts Programming

Arts Events

Facility Management (cultural center)Grantmaking

Cultural Planning


Organizations

Public Art Yes Yes

http://www.tippecanoe

ar ts.or g/index.html 4 Regi on 4 Ar ts Partner

80 Tipton Tipton 4


Federation

81 Union Liberty 5



82 Vanderburgh Evansvil le Ar ts Council of Southwester n Indi ana 2

Grantmaking

Arts Programming

Arts Awards



Organizations Yes Yes http://artswin.org/ 10

82 Vanderburgh Evansville Vanderburgh Community Foundation 1 Grantmaking Yes No

http://www.vanderbur

ghcommunityfoundatio

n.org/home 10 Region 10 Arts Partner

83 Vermillion Newport 6 Represented by Arts Illiana

84 Vigo Terre Haute Arts Illiana 3

Grantmaking

Arts Programming

Cultural Planning

Arts Events




http://www.artsilliana.

org/ 6 Region 6 Arts Partner

84 Vigo Terre Haute City of Terre Haute Arts Project Grants 0

Public Art

Arts Programming Yes No 6 Grants administered by Arts Illiana

84 Vigo Terre Haute River City Art Association 0


Arts Programming

Arts Events No Yes http://rcaa.info/ 6

85 Wabash Wabash 3


Fort Wayne

86 Warren Williamsport 4


Federation
http://www.artsilliana.org/http://www.artsilliana.org/http://www.artsilliana.org/http://www.artsilliana.org/


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County

Number

Name of


Number of


Grant-

making

Membership


IAC

Region Notes

87 Warrick Boonville 10



88 Washington Salem 12

Represented by the Community Arts

Program at Hanover College

89 Wayne Richmond Whitewater Valley Arts Fusion 0

Arts Programming

Promotion/Calendar

Advocacy No No

http://www.whitewate

rvalleyartsfusion.com/i

ndex.html 5

90 Wells Bluffton Creative Arts Council of Wells County 2

Arts Programming

Arts Events

Facility Management (creative arts

center) No Yes

http://www.wellscocre

ativearts.com/ 3

91 White Monticello 4


Federation

92 Whitley Columbia City 3


Fort Wayne


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