The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Each of the 56 states and jurisdictions has created an agency to support excellence in and access to the arts.

NASAA's mission is to strengthen state arts agencies. We represent their individual and collective interests, empower their work through knowledge, and advance the arts as an essential public benefit.

NASAA works at the national, state and local levels to ensure that

• every individual has abundant opportunities to participate in the artistic experience;
• the arts play a valued role in the educational, economic and cultural well-being of our communities;
• the nation's artists and arts organizations are key partners in providing public benefits; and
• our nation's diversity is recognized and celebrated through the arts.

The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization.