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Belonging Without Conformity [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] For many artists, the longing to belong is inseparable from the longing to create. Across continents, cultures, and...

The Quiet Crisis Facing Emerging and Mid-Career Artists  [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.]  In the soft glow of her studio, Elaine adjusts the stretchers on a canvas that has sat...

[Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] A worldwide community of artists would not be defined by geography so much as by shared intention. It would be less like a single organization with a...

Subscribe to the free newsletter of the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists. Subscribe here. ** Across Disciplines, the Same Struggles At first glance, a poet, a violinist, a ceramicist, and a theater director seem to inhabit entirely...

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If Galleries Vanish [Subscribe to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists free newsletter NOW and get your free gifts!] Art galleries—as we’ve known them since the rise of the modern art market in places like Paris and New York City—have long...

The Hidden Loneliness of the Creative Life The Many Roads That Lead to Isolation and Sadness Loneliness is one of the least acknowledged realities of the creative life—and one of the most damaging. From the outside, artists often appear surrounded: by audiences,...

What Artists Actually Need Right Now  And How the IACPA Will Help  When people talk about “supporting the arts,” the conversation almost always collapses into a single word: funding. Funding matters, of course. But to imagine that money alone addresses the lived...

A Worldwide Home for the Creative Spirit Why the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists Matters Now The International Association of Creative and Performing Artists (IACPA) was founded on a simple but increasingly radical premise: that creative...

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