Advocacy: Take Action for the Arts!
Arts Kentucky works to promote, protect and defend arts & culture in Kentucky through advocacy and education. Your elected officials look to you for guidance on what is important to your community. Your individual support can make a difference for millions of Kentuckians by ensuring that we all have access to arts and culture.
Cecelia Wooden, Ed.D.
Our Legislative Agent
We encourage you to use this website to contact your federal and state elected officials about legislation that will ensure public policies that are favorable to the arts.
CapWiz: Your tool to reach legislators
CapWiz is a powerful website that Arts Kentucky has customized to provide easy ways for you to make your concerns known to state and federal legislators on arts issues. Click here to see the current issues that need your action!
Cecelia Wooden: Your voice in Frankfort
Arts Kentucky member dues make possible the services of Cecelia Wooden as our year-round Legislative Agent. Cecelia has many years' experience working with legislators on arts and culture issues, and during sessions of the Kentucky General Assembly, she is in Frankfort almost every day, monitoring our issues and speaking to legislators about our concerns.
Between sessions, Cecelia is an invaluable resource for advocacy education and trainings, as well as an advisor to our Arts Advocacy Roundtable, a group of statewide grassroots advocates who work year-round to promote favorable legislation and other public policy around the Commonwealth.
Research You Can Use
With the help of Americans for the Arts, Arts Kentucky provides you with important talking points when working with business-minded legislators. Click here to access information about the arts' impact on economies around our state, broken down by state House and Senate districts.
Other Arts Advocacy Resources and Links
Click here to see a list and links for many other useful advocacy resources.