Animating Democracy

Animating Democracy, a project of Americans for the Arts, strives to promote arts and culture as a potent contributor to community, civic and social change.

Animating Democracy brings national visibility to arts-for-change work, builds knowledge about quality practice, and creates resources to help make the arts an integral and effective part of solutions to the challenges of communities.

The wide-ranging site includes a number of publications, including a long list of case studies, as well as resources such as an extensive, searchable database of community arts organizations around the country, and a list of a vast array of organizations that are supporting the work of arts for community, social, and civic change through services to the field