How has the National Endowment for the Arts impacted you?

NEH is the federal agency that makes local programs like “A Journey through Vietnam” possible, through grant making across the nation and core funding to state humanities councils like ours. This is just the first step toward creating a budget for 2018, and at this time, the NEA has announced that its 2017 operations will continue as planned.

The Corporation of Public Broadcasting now has a budget of $445 million, while the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities each have a budget of $148 million. The estimate includes grants from the NEA, NEH and CPB, as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the last of which funnels money to, obviously, museums and libraries. Its appropriation for 2016 was $147.9 million, which is.004 percent of the national budget, a majority of which went to benefit people with fewer opportunities to participate in the arts, according to its website.

Funding to the arts in America might receive a devastating blow.

It’s where and how those federal arts and humanities funds land that is significant.

“Love of music and the arts brings us together, and celebrates the richness of American culture and our spirit of curiosity and creativity”.

The NEA has supplied grants in Lewiston for everything from artisan-based manufacturing at L/A Arts to support the Bates Dance Festival.

Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writer’s Forum, said many of these individual categories aren’t often recognized as encompassing the arts.

“Our attention now turns to Congress, which has the ability to fund these programs despite the administration’s proposals”, said Stephen Kidd, the director of the National Humanities Alliance, in a statement.

New Jersey arts groups received $2.3 million from the NEA previous year.

Like many colleges and universities across the country, Wesleyan has benefitted greatly from federal support for innovative programing in the arts and humanities.

Since January, we’ve been tracking the possibility that the USA government may reduce funding for or completely eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts from the federal budget. People are very concerned.

Have you worked for an organization that received funding from the NEA?

“My counterparts in our wealthier states, they’re not going to lose their state councils, because they’re going to have the capacity with their populations to raise the money”, said Smith.

Supporters of the cuts don’t disagree that arts and culture are important, but they say it’s not the government’s place to be in the culture business. Wilkins called the president’s proposed budget “a shame but not a surprise”. Funding would increase treatment for opioid addiction and building more military weaponry and hardware. Walker says the money fuels big museums, little theater companies and everything in between – from the Cape to the Berkshires.

New budget cuts proposed by President Trump could affect local arts programs.

“He was the one that laid the ground work for creation of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities”, she said. They translate into economic development, helping students do well in school and later on in life, helping cities and towns revitalize themselves.

The same goes for NEA grants, according to Cristine Davis, the general manager of the Performing Arts Alliance.

“I think the stereotype may be that these are elite institutions supporting other elite institutions”, Nossel said, but she noted that they fund projects all over the country.