On Tuesday, January 28, 2025, San Diego ART Matters and Vanguard Culture gathered San Diego’s arts leaders for a morning of meaningful dialogue about issues that will help us shape an effective arts advocacy agenda for 2025.

Those in attendance are leaders who want to see our sector grow through partnerships and greater public and private investment. This first session will inform future gatherings, where we will dive deeper into issues of importance to our cultural community.

Since our earliest ancestors gathered in circles around the warmth of a fire, talking together has been our primary means of sharing knowledge, imagining the future, and cooperating to survive and thrive.

Let’s get 2025 off to a great start—for the good of San Diego’s arts and culture community and everyone. Respond to our survey about the state of the arts and help shape the future of the region: https://forms.gle/F28sX8vHBeoqjPGu8

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VANGUARD CULTURE is an inclusive 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to advancing San Diego’s Creative Industries. We provide quality arts journalism, cutting edge events, and professional development that create arts jobs, bring diverse communities together and inspire collaboration among industry professionals from the visual, performing, and culinary arts. To learn more about us please visit: www.VanguardCulture.com

SAN DIEGO ART MATTERS, formerly San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition (SDRACC), is the voice of arts and culture supporters in San Diego. Founded in 1989 to advocate for stable funding by the City of San Diego, San Diego ART Matters has expanded to become the local partner of California Arts Advocates on state issues and Americans for the Arts on national issues. Artists, arts and culture organizations, arts funders, and patrons of the arts join San Diego ART Matters to add their voices to the chorus of support for government funding, sound policy, and an educated public to ensure San Diego benefits from a strong creative sector.