State of the Arts • Championing the "Modern Renaissance" Concept

• New State of the Arts Initiatives • Starting April 2018

As our previous SteemIt promotion hits its finale this week (from March Art Madness), we're going to get back to some of our regular content and discontinue others.

For event history and details see the following link (and other embedded links from previous weeks) if so desired:

http://steemit.com/stateofthearts/@stateofthearts/your-votes-begin-here-and-now

For the next month or so we're going to try the following new (smaller) initiatives (to start with).

Arts Features

• Monday: Creative Prowess, Innovation and Design • Award 1 and 2 SBD

2 SBD. At least one winner receives 2 SBD during the month period, and there will be various other up-vote and 1 SBD awards.
Regularly we will resteem, upvote and feature depending on weekly submissions.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote Creative Prowess, Innovation and Design submissions hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

• Tuesday: Weekly Anime Feature • Award 1 and 2 SBD

2 SBD. At least one winner receives 2 SBD during the month and there will be various other up-vote and 1 SBD awards.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote Weekly Anime Features hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

• Wednesday: Theme and Story • Award 1 and 2 SBD

2 SBD. At least one winner receives 2 SBD and there will be various other up-vote and 1 SBD awards.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote Theme and Story submissions hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

• Thursdays: Music, Media, Writing, and other Creative Arts

2 SBD. At least one winner receives 2 SBD during the month, and there will be various up-vote and 1 SBD awards.
Regularly we will resteem, upvote and feature depending on weekly submissions.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote Video, Media, and Photography submissions hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

• Fridays: Video, and Photography

2 SBD. At least one winner receives 2 SBD during the month, and there will be various other up-vote and 1 SBD awards.
Regularly we will resteem, upvote and feature depending on weekly submissions.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote Video, Media, and Photography submissions hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

• Saturday: Weekly Arts Winner • Award 3 and 5 SBD

5 SBD. At least one overall winner receives 5 SBD during the month, and there will be various other up-vote and SBD awards.
Regularly we will resteem, upvote and feature depending on weekly submissions.
We will periodically resteem, display, upvote and promote art and media submissions hashtagged to #stateofthearts during the initiative. All media may enter • Hashtag #stateofthearts to your work. Follow at @stateofthearts.

SOA Content and Future (bigger) Initiatives in the Works

• GTB. After analyzing, we're going to discontinue Get Tot Blog due to its low amounts of up-votes and following.

• Phylum
Seeing sufficient interest shown for Phylum, we're going to re-initiate and continue the SOA experiment and foray into Experiential Process Design for Graphic Novels and Story.
If interested in participating in Experiential Story Design with us, familiarize yourself with this SOA feature as it will be the source of at least one larger contest and initiative in the future.

• Arts and Sciences Media Features • In and Around SoCal (New)
We're going to initiate some SOA Arts and Sciences Media Features we follow and participate in and around Southern California, and see how that goes.
These activities center around the entertainment industry, Art Center College of Design, USC, Cal Arts, UCLA, Cal Tech, and the Claremont Colleges.