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Can LA’s Arts Sector Become More Equitable?

by Matt Stromberg March 6, 2023March 6, 2023

A new report by Arts for LA calls for “solidarity-based approaches” to secure studio spaces, educate civic leaders, and secure living-wage jobs for artists.

Posted inPerformance

Digital Theater Is Not Just a Pandemic Fad, Creators Say 

Avatar photo by Mihika Agarwal October 24, 2022October 26, 2022

The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.

Posted inOpinion

The Power of Cities to Serve the Arts Needs to be Harnessed

Avatar photo by James Lockridge February 7, 2022February 15, 2022

An ordinance passed last year in Burlington, Vermont, directs city funds for public art only to work that is permanent and purchased from individual artists.

Posted inOpinion

How BIPOC Artists Fight Canada’s Biased Art Scene

Avatar photo by Elisha Lim August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

The Canada Council for the Arts will disburse $116.5 million, and groups that are “Indigenous, culturally diverse, deaf, disabled, or official language minorities” will share only 4% of these funds.

Posted inNews

Philadelphia Mayor Proposes Arts Budget of Zero, a Crushing Blow to Local Institutions

by Hakim Bishara May 14, 2020June 26, 2020

As statewide cultural grants are rescinded, Mayor Jim Kenny introduces a 2021 budget proposal that totally eliminates the city’s $4.4 million allowance for the arts.

Posted inIn Brief

New Study Says Americans Twice as Likely to Vote for Candidates Who Support Arts Funding Than Not

Avatar photo by Zachary Small December 13, 2018

The wide-ranging report from the nonprofit Americans for the Arts also affirms near-universal support for arts education and illustrates that 52% of Americans do, in fact, sing in the shower.

President Trump giving a speech on October 13, 2017 (official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen)
Posted inNews

Trump Signs Bill Boosting the NEA and NEH Budgets He Wanted to Eliminate

Avatar photo by Daniel A. Gross March 23, 2018

The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities will each receive about $153 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2018, around $3 million more than in 2017.

Posted inIn Brief

Trump’s Proposed 2019 Budget Would Slash Arts Funding in Attempt to Close NEA and NEH [UPDATED]

by Elena Goukassian February 12, 2018February 14, 2018

Just like last year, Trump’s budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation received a $6,000 NEH grant for environmental monitoring equipment to be installed at Taliesin and Taliesin West (pictured).
Posted inNews

National Endowment for the Humanities Gives $12.8M in Grants to 253 Projects

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 13, 2017

From environmental monitoring equipment for Frank Lloyd Wright homes to an overhaul of an online database of archaeological artifacts related to slavery, the grants span a huge range of projects.

Posted inIn Brief

NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 19, 2017July 20, 2017

The Committee’s Interior and Environment Appropriations bill now goes before the Senate, where a final federal budget for 2018 will be hammered out in the coming months.

Posted inNews

US Arts Nonprofits Generated $166.3 Billion in Spending in 2015, Report Shows

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 21, 2017June 22, 2017

A new report shows how the nonprofit culture sector stimulates the economy both locally and nationally.

Posted inArt

Why Eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts Would Hurt Rural Americans the Most

by Blair Murphy May 31, 2017June 2, 2017

The NEA, which the Trump administration has proposed to fully defund, has long been accused of primarily serving coastal elites, when in fact the opposite is true.

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