Nat'l. Endowment For the Arts Giving Away Thousands of Taxpayer Dollars!

National Endowment for the Arts ^ | May 9, 2003 | Nat'l Endowment for the Arts

[sdk7x7]

Click some of the links on this page to see some examples of where your taxpayer dollars are going. $40K for art representing the Colorado River? Sounds a bit ridiculous to me...

You can visit the Endowment's website at www.nea.gov and click around to see additional examples of this...

-sdk

[vannrox]

Anchorage, Alaska
University of Alaska Museum Fairbanks, Alaska
Phoenix, Arizona
Teec Nos Pos, Arizona
Wellton, Arizona
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Gage Middle School After-School Academic and Athletic Program Huntington Park , California
Los Angeles, California
Oakland, California
Quincy, California
Richmond, California
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture San Diego, California
San Diego, California
Bay Area Video Coalition San Francisco, California
The Film History Foundation San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Marino, California
Denver, Colorado
Chester, Connecticut
Danbury, Connecticut
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Newark, Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Wilmington, Deleware
Wilmington, Delaware
Blountstowns, Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida
Kissimmee, Florida
Miami, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Honolulu, Hawaii
Maui, Hawaii
Blackfoot, Idaho
Chicago, Illinois
Bloomington, Indiana
Topeka, Kansas
Fairfield, Maine
New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, Maine
Portland, Maine
Elkton, Maryland
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan
Fremont, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Kansas City School District Kansas City, Mossouri
Norfolk , Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Reno, Nevada
Glassboro, New Jersey
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Institute of American Indian Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art In General New York, New York
New York, New York
Henry Street Settlement New York, New York
Manhattan Community Learning Centers New York, New York
Museum for African Art New York, New York
Museum of Chinese in the Americas New York, New York
New York, New York
The Center for Photography at Woodstock Woodstock, New York
North Carolina Writer’s Network Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Akron, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
The Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oregon Festival of American Music Eugene, Oregon
Indian Art Northwest Portland, Oregon
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Lancaster Museum of Art Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Perry County Council on the Arts Newport, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Greenville Symphony Orchestra Greenville, South Carolina
Carver Center San Antonio, Texas
Waco, Texas
Barre, Vermont
Chester, Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont
Seattle, Washington
Broadway Center for the Performing Arts Tacoma, Washington
Madison Metropolitan School District Madison, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Community Learning Centers Milwaukee , Wisconsin
Wyoming Arts Council Cheyenne, Wyoming

 

[ewing]

You mean no money for a statue of Jesus soked in urine this year? (sarcasm button on)

[EGPWS]

Click some of the links on this page to see...

To do so would just create a liberal generated whirlwind of depression. I'll pass on the links.

[Calpernia]

This is one of the sites listed:

http://63.169.191.195:591/federal-opportunities02/FMPro?-db=examples.FP3&-lay=example&-op=cn&program%20objective=education&organization=Arab%20Community%20Center%20for%20Economic%20and%20Social%20Services&-format=results-examples-aed.htm&-find

If you navigate in, this is one of the first links posted:

http://www.accesscommunity.org/index.cfm?location=100&subsectionid=233

The FBI has announced plans to interview more than one out of every five people of Iraqi origin living in the United States. This bulletin informs you how to respond when the FBI, INS, or police contact you for questioning.

- If an FBI, INS or police officer asks to speak with you, write down their name, title and phone number. Then CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. We have a free hotline that provides confidential legal assistance.

[fightu4it]

Nat'l. Endowment For the Arts Giving Away Thousands of Taxpayer Dollars!

Quick, where is my crucifix and specimen cup!

[visualops]

Actually I think lots of people haven't had nearly the exposure to the arts as would be ideal. An appreciation for the arts, including music, dance, etc, as well as the visual arts such as painting, is an important part of understanding and contributing to our collective culture. I also believe it's important to foster this beginning when kids are young, as it helps "round out" one's education.
Yes there are some abuses and frivilous spending. But, a few bad apples should not spoil the whole bunch.
(I can't find the specific item you mentioned regarding the Colorado River.)

[The Old Hoosier]

Bump

[First Amendment]

Dave Barry's book "Below the Belt Way" has a lot of info (luckily in the form of humor or reading it might cause severe depression) on some of the crap the gov't spends our money on. So much of OUR money goes to "programs" that are stupid at best, unconstitutional all the time, and evil at worst. Until and unless the gov't stops wasting our money and doing harm with it at the same time, nothing will change for the better. I almost always vote straight Republic but I get really sick of politicians whose main foucs in life is maintaining the status quo, not rocking the boat, etc. They make me want to puke. I wish more Freepers would run for office.

[chance33_98]

Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut Danbury, Connecticut

What was that about seperation of church and state?

[Dave Olson]

"A government supported artist is an incompetent whore." -- Robert Heinlein.

Government has no business funding art.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Actually I think lots of people haven't had nearly the exposure to the arts as would be ideal.

You might think so. That doesn't mean it should be done by the government or paid for by the taxpayers.

Please go back and read your statement. Hear the elitism. With respect, it could be Hillary speaking. "The little people don't have enough culture. It Takes a Village to Raise the Trailer Trash out of their Cultural Deprivation."

[supercat]

Actually I think lots of people haven't had nearly the exposure to the arts as would be ideal. An appreciation for the arts, including music, dance, etc, as well as the visual arts such as painting, is an important part of understanding and contributing to our collective culture. I also believe it's important to foster this beginning when kids are young, as it helps "round out" one's education.

Yes, but how much of the money spent by the NEA et al. goes to anything other than mindless primitivism?

[Dan from Michigan]

Time to eliminate the NEA and NEH.

[Jesse]

Don't tell us. Write our supposedly fiscally conservative GOP House and Senate. They voted for it.

[yonif]

What about art of a national/historical importance? Isn't the statue of liberty considered "art"?

[visualops]

Hear the elitism

It's a shame that's all you hear. Rather elite and narrow-minded of yourself actually.
It would be great if lots of folks participated in supporting the arts. But the fact is unfortunately many people are indoctrinated with the belief that the arts are fancy-shmancy and snobby etc etc, which isn't true. The arts include anything from a bluegrass festival to the opera, from watercolors to clay, from jazz to ballet.
I would like to see the arts supported on the local level, which I feel is more appropriate than the government trying to decide what's "worthwhile". That all too often ends up being some individual's idea of 'diverse' or 'ground-breaking'.
The person that started this thread made a snide remark about something, and I was responding to that.
There was a time when "broadening one's horizons" was considered a good thing, from seeing the sights to anything else that stimulated the mind and imagination. Your comments about Hillary and trailer trash were way off base.

[visualops]

Without even researching I'd bet much more goes to anything else other than primitivism.
As an example, in the list the poster linked to, there's a grant to Greenville County School District (where I live), that's going to fund kids getting to go hear the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.
Money well spent IMHO.

[Go Gordon]

I also believe it's important to foster this beginning when kids are young, as it helps "round out" one's education.

The US government has no right to give taxpayer money to ANY of this crap. Maybe if the tax forms contained a box to check-off, much like contributions, but absolutely no way should a single nickle be given to this stuff. Its largess at its finest.

[Numbers Guy]

Isn't the statue of liberty considered "art"?

No, it's a statue.