About Gladstone Payton
Bio: As the associate director of federal affairs, Gladstone works to develop and promote the federal legislative agenda of Americans for the Arts to Congress and the federal administration. Advocacy efforts include direct lobbying; proposing, monitoring, and analyzing legislation; working in formal and informal coalitions; organizing strategic events; and mobilizing Americans for the Arts’ grassroots members and constituencies. Gladstone serves as the main liaison between Americans for the Arts and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Posts by Gladstone Payton:
- Federal Budget Update: Never a Better Time for Arts Advocacy Day (Mar 25 2013)
- Sequester Cuts Cultural Agencies (Mar 04 2013)
- Pushing Charities Off the Fiscal Cliff? (Dec 18 2012)
- The Not So “Lame Duck” Session of Congress & What It Means for the Arts (from Arts Watch) (Jun 05 2012)
- Charitable Giving Reform Becoming a Taxing Issue (Nov 02 2011)
- Amendment to Further Cut NEA Fails! (Jul 28 2011)
- Full House Committee Approves $20 Million Cut for NEA (Jul 13 2011)
- Federal Arts Education Program UPDATE (May 26 2011)
- ArtCast: The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit (Oct 30 2009)