Varsity Cinema, FilmScene Lose Federal Funding Under New NEA Priorities • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Varsity Cinema, FilmScene lose federal funding under new NEA priorities • Iowa Capital Dispatch

The Varsity Cinema in Des Moines' Drake University neighborhood is run by Des Moines Film, a nonprofit organization. (Photo by Tom Foley/Iowa Capital Dispatch)Earlier this month, hundreds of art groups across the United States were informed they were about to lose a source of their funding: federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The change was in response to a letter from the White House outlining President Donald Trump’s recom…

Varsity Cinema, FilmScene lose federal funding under new NEA priorities

Earlier this month, hundreds of art groups across the United States were informed they were about to lose a source of their funding: federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The change was in response to a letter…

Imagine an Artworld Without State Funding

State funding tends to come with strings attached, trapping arts organisations into bureaucratic policies. So who wants it? Mary Mills Lyall, and Earl Harvey Lyall, The Cubies’ ABC (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913) In the postwar era, spending public funds to support the arts has usually been seen as a good thing. In European social democracies it has played a major role in shaping the public’s access to the arts – in England, Arts Council E…