Lexington Arts Advocacy Initiative - Join us now!
Dear Arts Colleagues:
A coalition of like-minded arts and cultural organizations in Lexington has recently come together in response to ongoing challenges such as grant funding cancellations, potential departmental closures, and shifting federal priorities. Our shared goal is to amplify our collective voice as nonprofit art educators, museums, and cultural programmers—and to clearly demonstrate both our unity and the significant impact these changes could have on our community.
We’ve developed a coordinated communication timeline and would love for you to join us. Here's how you can get involved:
Confirm Your Participation
Please reply to let us know if you're on board by June 18. We’ll ensure you're included in future communications regarding newsletter rollouts and social media toolkits.
Add an Advocacy Page to Your Website
To create consistency across our organizations, we ask each partner to include an advocacy page. You can simply copy and paste the content from LexPhil’s excellent example: https://lexphil.org/advocacy
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Commit to Shared Communications
We will provide email and social media content for coordinated release dates. Please pledge to share these messages via your organization’s platforms—and your personal networks if you're willing—on the scheduled days (dates to come).
Send Us Your Logo
If you're in, please send us your logo so we can include it in our shared materials and show our strength in numbers.
We hope you will stand with us. Together, our voices are stronger—and our message louder.
Best,
Brooke Raby and LexPhil
along with Carnegie Center, Living Arts & Science Center, Bluegrass Youth Ballet, Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, and the Lexington Children's Theater
TIMELINE OF COMMUNICATION
All websites updated by June 20th and live
First newsletter BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL EMAIL: JUNE 23
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Second newsletter NEA, IMLS, NEH: JUNE 30
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State and local: JULY 7
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WRITE IN DAY
July 9
July 12