Dinner parties help fund arts projects
by: David Weinberg
- originally published in NPR's Marketplace 04/19/2010
Public funding for the arts has been hurt by the downturn, so local groups have turned to small-scale private donors to offer micro-grants for starving artists.
Kai Ryssdal: There was a big rally at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta today. Artists protesting cuts in public funding. The Georgia House of Representatives voted last week to get rid of the state's Arts Council, and the $800,000 in grants it handed out last year. Even in states that have public funding of the arts, grants are still hard to come by. So local groups have turned to small-scale private donors. Call it micro-grants for starving artists.
David Weinberg has the story.
Amelia Colette Jones with her friend Maggie Ginestra, sitting down, at the venue where they hold Sloup.
| David Weinberg