Democracy is more than political parties, opinion blogs and long lines at the local polling station.

Democracy is a conversation, one that's going on all the time -- an exchange of ideas, perspectives, experiences and information about our world and how we want to live in it.

Indy Arts exists to broaden and deepen that conversation.

We support the media producers and culture makers whose important works don't fit with the commercial mass-media formula -- and whose innovations are below the radar of the big nonprofit institutions.

Read more:

• "Arts, Culture & the Crisis of Democracy"

• "The Case for New Public Media"

• "Creating a Culture of Democracy"

• Reading List: Documents that inform and inspire our work