Arts Funding

Let Them Eat Opera: Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Gets Honored for Supporting the Arts While Slashing the Arts

Pamela Haag | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Pittsburgh Opera, Arts Funding, Pennsylvania Budget, Education Funding Cuts, Governor Tom Corbett, Politics News

Giving a Lifetime Achievement Award for the arts to a governor who is slashing an educational foundation of the arts is one small, but provocative, example of the fantastical cognitive dissonance in politics today.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier. Why?

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Bureacuracy, Public Arts Funding, Government Arts Funding, Arts Funding, Government Bureaucracy, Canadian Politics, Secretary of Arts, Secretary of Culture, Culture News

Controlling the development of culture has been the dream of tyrants and humanitarians alike, but neither has been successful. Yet we seriously posit that some "Secretary of Culture" can manage, coerce, shape, tinker, tailor, or soldier it into submission?

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Should We Support Arts Organizations Or Musicians?

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Arts Organizations, Local-Culture, Musicians, Orchestra, Arts Funding, Support the Arts, Culture News

A few weeks ago, David Beem made a bold statement to HuffPost readers. In a piece titled "Slash Your Local Orchestra," Beem, a former professional cel...

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Is Federal Money The Best Way To Fund The Arts?

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Change My Mind, Yancey Strickler, NEA Funding, Arts Funding Cuts, Kickstarter, Great Debate, Yancey Strickler Nea, Nea, Arts Funding, Kickstarter Nea, Federal Arts Funding, Nea Funding Cuts, Nea Pbs, Culture News

Is federal funding the best way to fund the arts? The worst? We've asked two experts on opposing sides to argue their case.

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Federal Government Money Is Not The Best Way To Fund The Arts

Ian David Moss | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Change My Mind, Great Debates, Government Arts Funding, Arts, Who Should Fund the Arts, Government Funding, Should Government Fund the Arts, Great Debate, Arts Funding, Home News

Arts lovers: go ahead and write your letters to Congress asking for level funding, that 6% increase, or whatever you want. But once federal funding becomes less of a joke, it may well become more of a headache.

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Federal Government Money Is The Best Way To Fund The Arts

Carla Escoda | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Change My Mind, Great Debates, Government Arts Funding, Arts, Government Funding, Should Government Fund the Arts, Who Should Fund the Arts, Great Debate, Arts Funding, Culture News

Reallocating a tiny portion of the defense budget to fund tours for American performing arts companies to strategically important countries makes them a potent weapon in the battle to win hearts and minds.

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The Audience and the Educator: A Study in Blue

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Education, Liberal Arts Education, Jazz, Arts, Jazz Music, Higher Education, Arts Funding, Arts Education, Culture News

The education system can certainly expose students to classical music and jazz (hopefully enriching their lives by doing so), but it cannot make them love the music.

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Why We Shouldn't Try To Save The Arts

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Arts, Government Arts Funding, Arts Funding, Saving the Arts, Spring for Music, Spring for Music Great Blogger Contest, The Arts, Culture News

Why do so many people think the arts need saving? Because people enjoy making music, dancing, painting, and writing poetry. They would also really like it if those activities paid for a nice three-bedroom ranch in the suburbs or a hipster condo in the Village.

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Arts In America

Jennifer Rivera | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Government Arts Funding, Opera, San Antonio Opera Bankruptcy, The Recessionary Arts, Secretary of Culture, Recessionary Arts, Arts Funding, San Antonio Opera, Culture News

Why am I home right now, attempting to be a writer instead of wailing my guts out somewhere in an opera? Well, I was supposed to have a gig this spring with San Antonio Opera. Except San Antonio Opera filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and no longer exists.

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LOOK: Baldwin, Other Celebrities Head To Capitol Hill To Press Arts Funding Cause

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Congress, Capitol Hill, Marsha Blackburn, Harper Hill, Melina Kanakaredes, Ben Folds, Americans for the Arts, Nea, Arts Funding, Tiffani Thiessen, Alex Baldwin, National Endowment for the Arts, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts. Baldwin and o...

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Alec Baldwin Drops '30 Rock' News At Press Club

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Alec Baldwin Tom Coburn, Video, Alec Baldwin Arts Funding, 30 Rock, Washington DC, Alec Baldwin 30 Rock, Arts Funding, Alec Baldwin, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Alec Baldwin reminded Washington journalists on Monday that he's one of the sharpest politically minded actors in Hollywood during an ho...

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Beloved Arts Programs In Danger!

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Pbs, Video, Art and Money, Documentary Series, Art21, Arts Budget Cuts, American Masters, Pbs Arts Documentary, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced they were considering cutting federal production aid for PBS Arts series by possibly over $1 mi...

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Paradise Lost: Can We Keep Nonprofits From Failing?

Richard Dare | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Nonprofit, Nonprofits, Innovation, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Funding, Entrepreneurship, Music, Business Models, Business, Arts Funding, Business Model, Impact News

The underlying business model of the nonprofit is too inadequate, and the need for our services is too fast-growing, and society's understanding of the situation isn't all that it might be.

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What Happens When You Cut Arts Funding?

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Poets, Arts Funding, Poet Laureate, Local Arts Funding, Poetry, Poet Laureates, Books News

Most of us who create art dwell in the gap between what we know and don't know. All I need to know, I've learned by being a poet: keep my broken heart open, don't harden over what's too hard to feel, create what's ready, and persevere. It's my practice.

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Today Is D.C. Arts Advocacy Day

Head-Roc | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Dc Arts, Arts Funding, Dc Arts Advocacy Day, Dc Arts Funding, Dc Impact, Robert Bettman, Dc Advocates for the Arts, DC News

Rob Bettman, Executive Director for the D.C. Advocates for the Arts, has organized a movement bringing artists, arts groups, and patrons together to lobby D.C.'s mayor and council members for increased arts funding.

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Any Given Child: A Progress Report

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Springfield, Any Given Child, Education, Sarasota, Portland, Arts, Austin, Sacramento, Arts Education, Kevin Johnson, Las Vegas, Kennedy Center, Arts Funding, Education Arts Funding, Education News

One challenge that is universally experienced is the shrinking pool of public funding for arts education. No one who works in arts education can ignore this reality.

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Occupy the Arts

Scott Walters | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Arts Funding, The 2 Percent, Diversity, The Arts, Occupy the Arts, Diversity in the Arts, Culture News

Circular arguments about arts funding often echo Republican talking points: trickle-down economics serve the poor, progress in race relations means we've reached a post-racial society and we shouldn't take money from the rich because they are job creators.

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SoFla Ranked 6th In U.S. For Arts Jobs

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Arts Jobs Miami, South Florida Sixth in Arts Jobs, Arts Job, Miami News, Arts City, U.S. Census, Arts Jobs in South Florida, Arts Funding, South Florida, Miami News

The Miami Metro area has been ranked 6th in the U.S. for the number of arts and entertainment jobs, according to an On Numbers analysis of the 2009 U....

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Why Don't Mary Cheh or Tommy Wells Support $10 Million for D.C. Arts?

Robert Bettmann | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Dc Arts, DC Arts Scene, DC City Council Budget, Dc Budget, Dc Arts Funding, DC City Council, DC Artists, Nea, National Edowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, DC News

Government funding is critically important to local artists and arts organizations, but how much arts funding is the right amount of arts funding?

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Villanova Cancels Gay Artist's Workshop

AP | PATRICK WALTERS | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Catholic Universities, Video, LGBT Issues, Aids Research, Controversy, Villanova, Queer Art, Gay Artists, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, Tim Miller, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA — Villanova University has canceled a workshop on personal narrative by a gay performance artist, saying his shows aren't in keepin...

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Securing Our Future: Investment in the Arts Not a Handout

Jennifer H. Goulet | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Michigan Arts Funding, Detroit Arts, ArtServe Michigan, Arts Funding, Arts Funding Cuts, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

Funding support for the arts represented just 3.7 cents per $10,000 of Michigan state spending in Fiscal Year 2011. Knowing the arts were more valuable than a few cents, we knew better arguments were needed to prove it.

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Military Funding vs. Funding for the Arts: What Does the Difference Say About American Values?

Brendan McMahon | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Winston Churchill, Department of Defense, Opera, Employment, Mitt Romney, Theater, Nea, UK Arts, Arts Funding, Arts News, Mitt Romney 2012, Unemployment Crisis, Arts, Newt Gingrich, National Endowment for the Arts, Republican Party, US Budget, Arts Education, Arts News

If we as Americans are so willing to grossly over-fund our military and defund our arts, our deepest expression of ourselves both at home and abroad is simply an expression of war.

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Putting Americans to Work

Michael Kaiser | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Creativity, Wpa, Arts, Entrepreneurs, Arts Funding, Creative Thinking, Small Business, The Arts, Innovation, Creativity in Business, Business Creativity, Creative Economy, Arts News

At a time when unemployment is the key political issue and when virtually everyone in politics is struggling to find ways to reduce the ranks of the unemployed, why doesn't some smart politician realize that the arts are one way to help solve this problem?

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Could We 'Fix' Detroit With $800 Billion? Let's Try!

Ned Staebler | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Infrastructure Investment, Mass Transit, Urban Policy, Economic Development, Arts Funding, Light Rail, Cities, Detroit, Marshall Plan, Detroit Renewal, Detroit News

The direct financial costs of the Iraq war were estimated to be about $800 billion, with a 'B.' That struck me as a lot of money. I started thinking: "What else could we have done with $800 billion over eight years?"

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Can The Arts Survive Without Banks?

Carey Perloff | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Arts Funding Cuts, The Arts, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, The Recessionary Arts, Arts, Banks Funding Art, Recessionary Arts, Arts Funding, Arts Funding Banks, Occupy Movement, Corporate Funding for the Arts, Culture News

By supporting a local arts organization, a bank helps ensure the survival of a strong community ecosystem while at the same time raising its own profile in the business community. That's the equation. If we don't want to traffic in that equation, we shouldn't accept the support.

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