As Arts Funding Is Slashed without Rationale, Nevada Legislators Know It’s Worth Defending

Colorado arts and humanities funds are being drained. Can philanthropy refill them?

Story first appeared in: On May 2, arts organizations across Colorado received their dreaded late-night emails — not wholly unexpected — from the federal government, terminating grants recently awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, effective at the end of the month. By May 6 the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, a Denver-based philanthropic organization, sent out their own email, promising $400,000 in “Rapid Response” grants to those impact…

As arts funding is slashed without rationale, Nevada legislators know it’s worth defending

Nevada artists and arts nonprofits are tired, but not because we’ve run out of ideas or energy or passion. We’re tired because we are constantly asked to prove our worth in economic terms, spreadsheets and graphs—a language different from the elemental value we know the arts to propel—and despite our consistent illustration in this second language, we have watched creativity pushed to the margins, because it’s easy to chop. As national axes swin…

Arts and Culture Activities Funding

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