Birmingham Museum of Art
The mission of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham is to fund, support, nurture and promote arts and cultural organizations and working artists in central Alabama. Like you, we believe that arts and culture enhances our lives and our communities.
The Cultural Alliance plays many roles in accomplishing our mission:
- We advocate for the cultural sector.
- We raise funds to disperse to worthy organizations and individuals.
- We involve citizens in the re-granting of public funds to the arts.
- We oversee the implementation of the Cultural Master Plan of Greater Birmingham.
- We act as a clearinghouse for arts education programming in the region.
- We act as a spokesperson on behalf of the cultural sector.
- We conduct research on the sector to help inform public policy on the arts.
- We act as a convener and facilitator -- bringing diverse voices together to address opportunities, problems and issues.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
In 2002, Region 2020 commissioned Wolf, Keens & Company, a leading arts consultant, to develop an arts and cultural master plan as one of its major initiatives. Region 2020 is a nonprofit organization which advocates for regional cooperation and citizen involvement in Central Alabama to improve quality of life in areas such as education, affordable housing, the environment, transportation, and the arts. The Cultural Master Plan was officially released in March 2003 by Region 2020. The plan listed the formation of a cultural organization as a key strategy in providing consistent coordination and leadership for the arts and cultural sector. Region 2020 served a crucial role establishing the infrastructure of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham before spinning it off in September 2003.
Birmingham City Schools awarded grant for arts education program
Birmingham City Schools, in
partnership with the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham, has been awarded
$1.16 million by the U.S. Department of Education to fund its Straight A’s: Arts
Advance Academic Achievement program.
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press release (PDF)
Cultural Marketplace for Central Alabama
Ask Artie! connects you to individual artists and arts professionals, arts/cultural organizations, venues, galleries, plus a wide variety of resources and services of interest to the cultural sector. And it’s free! 
Want to know what’s going on where in central Alabama? Check out our online events calendar. Are you an organization with upcoming events? Submit your events today!
Wow! The arts & cultural sector generates $125 million for the Jefferson
County economy.
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Arts and Culture Links
Click here for links to arts and culture organizations in the Greater Birmingham area.
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Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham
1731 First Avenue North, Suite 190 · Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone: 205-458-1393 · Fax: 205-458-1396
