LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL

Description

The Lincoln Arts Council was established as a non-profit organization in 1968 and designated as the City of Lincoln’s agency for the arts by executive order of Mayor Coleen Seng March 13, 2006. Our mission: championing the arts, connecting people, changing lives. Our purpose is to promote the arts in Lincoln, to foster partnerships and collaborations, improve accessibility to the arts, raise appreciation of diversity and transform Lincoln into a model arts community. Current events and programming include Art Makes Me SmART., which includes all of our arts education outreach in the classroom, after school and during summer; organizing the Mayor’s Arts Awards Gala in June and the Lincoln Arts Festival in September, Awarding Project Grants to applicants from qualifying member non-profits and creating an online inventory of Public Art in the City of Lincoln.