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By Julia F. Lowell

A variety of U.S. country and jurisdictional governments lower their arts budgets in 2003 and 2004. the writer argues that the cause of those cuts isn't just a one-time monetary predicament, however the political weak point of kingdom arts organizations that has arisen as a result of a growing to be mismatch among their roles and constructions and the cultural and political realities they face. A shift within the arts corporations' concentration and investment could be a resolution, however it can't ensue till very important conceptual and functional concerns are resolved.

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9 California offers perhaps the most extreme example. In FY 2001, the California Arts Council gave the San Francisco Ballet Association a $135,558 organizational support grant. This came to less than one-half of one percent of the San Francisco Ballet’s FY 2000 net income of over $27 million. org). 22 State Arts Agencies 1965–2003: Whose Interests to Serve? 1. “Most New Jersey artists didn’t know who we were”; and 2. ”10 Managers at NJSCA attribute the latter response to the fact that the agency had been sending out approximately 15 times as many letters rejecting artists’ grant applications as awarding grants.

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