Vision Statement – In sync with the 21st Century

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) envisions a cultural landscape that fully values and integrates the essential contributions of an expanding Latino arts field and its dynamic workforce. 

 

Mission Statement:

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion, advancement, development, and cultivation of the Latino arts field.

In this capacity, NALAC stimulates, facilitates intergenerational dialogues among disciplines, languages, and traditional and contemporary expressions.

 

Value Statement:

NALAC is led by a dedicated group of individuals who share a core set of values.  This group includes a national board of directors, national office staff and national advisory council, all committed to:

 

Advocacy

•    providing a strong voice for Arts and Culture in all its forms and manifestations for Latinos regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation and physical abilities

Empowerment

•    improving the severe under capitalization of the artistic communities of color in general, and the Latino arts community in particular

Equality

•    voicing our repudiation to all forms of discrimination, including but not limited to: racism, sexism, ageism and discrimination against gay, lesbian, transgender, physically challenged and undocumented populations; promoting the importance of multi-lingual and multi-ethnic environments that incubate the creation of artpromoting and disseminating cultural initiatives by Latino artists, arts organizations, cultural workers, scholars and other sectors

Engagement   

•    promoting, valuing and critically engaging the broad arc of artistic and cultural contributions to the creative cultural economy by Latino Artists

Ethics

•    guiding our business practices by a strict set of principles that reflect fairness, inclusivity, collectivity, and transparency in all endeavors

•    voicing our repudiation to all forms of discrimination, including but not limited to: racism, sexism, ageism and discrimination against gay, lesbian, transgender, physically challenged and undocumented populations;