The Center for Ethics in Action (CEIA) was created in 1996 to promote a new ethical compass for our country and the world beyond, with women leaders setting the course. The CEIA mounts exhibitions of fine art created by women around the world to demonstrate the importance of the arts in life-long learning as well as the transformative power of the arts. For the past seven years the CEIA has served as a fiscal sponsor for programs that fit within its vision and goals. The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) is a special program of CEIA. CEIA is a publicly supported U.S. non-governmental organization with its own tax-exempt status, located at the University of New England’s Portland, Maine campus.
Women leaders in the arts can help move our society to a new code of conduct – one that nurtures our young, our communities, our governments, the least developed parts of our world, and our planet itself. Women leaders across all the arts can promote a global society of race, gender and ethnic equality.
- Concern for the long-term consequences of our actions.
- Focus on the insights and ideas of women, under-represented in policymaking.
- Women must work with men; we must all work with children and young people.
- Diversity of class, age, race/ethnicity, education, income, national origin.
- Global perspectives inform local challenges, and vice versa.
- History can offer guideposts to useful future paths.
- Multi-disciplinary, practical, no-nonsense approaches.
- Need to think big, aim high, take risks.
- Identify common values as an ethical base for proposed actions.
- Strategies should be open, collaborative, holistic and inclusive.
- Civil society groups can seed good ideas for adoption by governments at all levels.
- Procedures should be democratic with input from everyone.
