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Why join Arts Orange County?
ArtsOC works behind the scenes to help create stable and well-managed arts organizations, innovative and effective collaborations, and informed and aware audiences. 98% of ArtsOC's budget is derived from membership fees and contributed gifts and grants, from the private sector. With your membership support, ArtsOC can continue to help enhance public awareness of the arts and strengthen the capacity of the OC arts community.
Who is eligible for a membership and what are the benefits?
Membership is open to individual artists, nonprofit arts organizations and other professional partners, and entitles them to a variety of benefits available only to members of an umbrella agency such as an arts council. Membership is also open to individuals or businesses with a strong personal and/or professional interest in the vitality and broader vision of the nonprofit arts in Orange County.
Member Benefits for Arts Organizations
Arts Orange County offers arts information, technical assistance and research resources, including: Comprehensive directories of arts organizations and venues, workshops, seminars and conferences to share information, explore issues and build professional skills; research information, such as the recent Orange County Cultural Indicators Report, and advocacy tools to promote the value of the arts and arts education.
SparkOC.com Benefits• Non-profit arts organizations and individual artists will receive reduced rates to workshops, seminars and conferences offered by Arts OC in
order to share information, explore issues and build professional skills.• Non-profit arts organizations will have access to matching funds to attend selected seminars offered by other service organizations.
• Only members will receive an invitation to participate in Imagination Celebration, Arts OC’s annual spring arts festival for families
(dependent on meeting guidelines).• Members will have the opportunity to purchase multi-year memberships at a discount and may use the Art’s OC logo on printed material.
Ready to join? CLICK HERE to download a Membership Brochure.• Unlimited event listings on SparkOC; each with up to 6 images and links back to your website and/or box office.
• Participation in the members-only Discount Ticket Marketplace and weekly Half-Price Tickets Spark-e!.
• Only members will be considered for placement in the featured events section of the website.
• Members-only access to list artist profiles, member profiles, classified ads, auditions, classes, and fundraiser's.
• Member-only discounted rates on advertising and dedicated e-mail blasts.
• Increased exposure through on-going regional marketing campaigns and content distribution agreements with local and national travel and
culture websites and publications.• Additional promotion from the collaboration of all members by participating in the co-marketing campaign which features direct links to
and from member sites.• The opportunity to feature live media samples (video clips, audio samples, and multi-image galleries) in the media gallery.
• You will be a part of the site that is known county-wide as one-stop shopping for arts and culture.
• Individual artist members receive a bio page and the opportunity to showcase their work in an online gallery.
• Non-profit organizational members receive a bio page that summarizes upcoming events and the opportunity to showcase events in an
online gallery.• Arts-related retailers receive a listing in the business directory and appear in proximity searches to nearby events.
