Arts Association of Alachua County
AAAC has supported the arts in our area for the past thirty years in the following ways:
- serving as the local arts agency until the City became the official agency
- founding the Downtown Arts Festival
- sponsoring the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Writers Workshop, Florida Voices Book Fair, the awards program of the National League of Pen Women, Gainesville Branch, and the Butterfly Festival's Photography Contest
- working to develop tourism funds for local groups and sponsoring grant writing workshops for non-profit agencies
- producing events at the Downtown Plaza featuring local groups
- holding forums to inform political candidates about the local arts and to ascertain their positions on the arts and arts funding
- recognizing and presenting awards to those individuals and businesses who support the arts
- holding annual networking events for groups and individuals in the arts
Today, AAAC's mission continues to support, nurture, and create an environment for the arts in Alachua County that is accessible to all of its citizens.