The mission of Independent Arts & Media is to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices.

Read more about our Mission & Thesis; get the latest Indy Arts News; learn about our Staff, Board and Volunteers; and our Organizational Policies.

But seriously. Why media? Why the arts? Why lump them together? Because it’s all dialogue — and dialogue is the beating heart of our democracy.

Democracy Needs Independent Voices

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.