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South Westminster Arts Group
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To establish a non-profit community-based arts network for
- Establishing a network of artists, arts supporters and art supportive businesses for communication, advocacy, and identification of needs, and progress toward solutions for the creative community.
- Promote and foster a population of creative workers by encouraging them to reside or work in the historic, established
- Focusing on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness in order to strengthen the arts community and help it serve the needs of its supporters and audience, and provides an influential voice for all facets of the community.
- Maintain a commitment to public service through education, outreach, public artistic endeavors and other means of connecting with the larger community.
- Showcase the strength and diversity of the Art community.
Governance:
SWAG is governed by a Board of Directors selected based on each Director’s ability to contribute to the SWAG mission. Candidates for the board may include creative professionals and persons with experience in for-profit and non-profit businesses, development, accounting, finance, law and construction. The Board is responsible for stewardship of SWAG’s resources (including available physical facilities and funds) and functions to promote the careers of creative professionals, to support enriching programs for the community, to establish financial stability of SWAG as an organization and its programming, and to create capital growth that will allow planned facilities to be completed. When the operating budget permits, the Board will hire staff to coordinate programming, operations and fundraising.
Contact:
South Westminster Arts Group (SWAG)
3915 West 73rd Avenue
Westminster,
Website: http://wagarts.mosaicglobe.com