WESTAF: Celebrating the Western Imagination through the Arts

WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. WESTAF fulfills its mission to strengthen the financial, organizational and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West by providing innovative programs and services. WESTAF serves the largest geographical area and number of states of the six mainland regional arts organizations, including the state arts agencies, artists, and arts organizations of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

WESTAF currently is engaged in arts policy research, information-systems development, state arts agency development, and convening arts experts and leaders to address critical issues in the arts. In addition, the organization continues its commitment to programs in presenting, literature, visual arts and the folk arts. WESTAF also is engaged in an array of Internet-related projects designed to benefit the future well being of the arts community of the West.

As a progressive and evolving organization, WESTAF initiates new programs and projects regularly.

Governance
WESTAF is governed by a 22-member board of trustees drawn largely from arts leaders in the West. The state arts agencies of WESTAF's 13 member states are the principle beneficiaries of WESTAF's work and each state is represented on the board.