Word: nea
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...fiscal year 1982, the proposed Reagan budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is $88 million, 50 per cent less than the figure suggested by former President Carter. The administration points out that when the NEA and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) were founded by Johnson in 1965, they had a combined budget of $2 million. Trimming arts funding is not an attempt to eliminate federal support for the arts. Reagan's spokesmen say. It's just an effort to keep things in perspective...
...NEA finds matching grants for public television. It funds exhibits and theater productions, opera and ballet; it foots the bill for necessary but mundane chores which would never interest a private supporter, like the cataloguing of the Whitney's entire collection. It backs controversial exhibits which corporations hesitate to support. But most of all, a grant from the NEA legitimizes an organization in the eyes of corporate and private patrons. A theater company with a $100,000 federal grant usually finds private sector support much easier to come by. "The NEA has generated at least $5 for every federal dollar...
...William Green '55, a New York Republican who declared himself opposed to the depth of cuts, said recently he understood the artist's fears. "There's been a sense that Reagan's proposed cuts for the NEA come as a response to what we felt to be the excessive politicization of that agency by the Carter administration," Green says. "Although I feel that the NEA has come to be relied on excessively by corporations to show them what to support, either through challenge grants, or through direct support. I do not feel that these corporations are capable of evaluating...
...proposed 50 per cent cut. The Task Force, headed by Charlton Heston, includes such notables as Beverly Sills, general director of the New York City Opera. Roger Stevens, chairman of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Nancy Hanks, ex-NEA chairman...
...Louis music lovers, worries over NEA funding cuts may be premature; orchestra officials have no inkling of how much funding they will lose and, indeed, NEA may decide to channel its remaining dollars to a few well-established institutions like the St. Louis Symphony rather than spread the money around the nation. Nevertheless, orchestra officials are already mulling over initial money-saving measures, such as ending some outdoor concerts this summer and joint ventures with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. "We'll be hurt, but we'll survive," says Susan Switzer, the symphony's public relations...