"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
- Robert Rauschenberg, Veteran, U.S.N.

United States Veterans' Artists Alliance is a 501(c) 3, non profit, multi-disciplinary arts organization.

The USVAA theater and gallery space serves as a supportive space where military veterans, artists, and organizations come together to workshop projects and see their work performed.

VETERANS VOX 365 ON LAPROGRESSIVE.COM
From Ernest Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War, to James Jones and Joseph Heller and World War II, to Ron Kovic and Tim O'Brien and Vietnam, America military veterans have turned their combat experiences into powerful literary works that demonstrate the personal costs of our country's wars for the men and women who fight them.

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EVENTS

VETERANS' VOX 365
Veterans honoring the literary works of veterans, accompanied by displays of fine art by veteran artists. November 2010 - November 2011

BUG by Tracy Letts; directed by Keith Jeffreys; starring, Christopher Sweeney (Veteran, U.S.M.C.) Heidi Brook Myers (Veteran, U.S. Army), Maribeth Monroe, Skip Pipo, Casey Sullivan and Manfred Hofer.

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SHAKESPEARE and VETERANS, our annual free Shakespeare Program 2008 to 2010: TWELFTH NIGHT, CORIOLANUS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, and OTHELLO.

The CULVER CITY SLAM! with Nation of Improv Improv Night presented once monthly, produced by Air Force Veteran Dave Carter, 2005 - present

DEBRIEFING Vietnam Veterans' Photography Gallery October-November 11th 2006

CUSTER October, November 2007

Air Force Veteran April Fitzsimmons' THE NEED TO KNOW at the Kirk Douglas theater, August 2nd, 2008

DEBRIEFING Chicago National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum May-November 11th 2008

USMC Veteran Christopher Sweeney's gallery exhibit DISARMED with THE ZOO STORY, featuring Christopher Sweeney