City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves FY 19 arts funding, ponders its next move

"...The three-act drama about city arts funding that opened Sept. 13 came to a calm..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...city cultural support reacted strongly to deep cuts in funding for FY 19, the Arts Commission had a working..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves 2019 funding, ponders next move

"...The three-act drama about city arts funding that opened Sept. 13 came to a calm..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding Skipped Established Arts Organizations. Will They Survive?

Reforms to Austin’s arts grants threaten to disrupt the city’s cultural ecosystem

"...Two years ago, the city of Austin’s Economic Development Department enacted a huge overhaul of its..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Arts Funding Tempest

Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern

"...clouds continued to hang low over the city's Cultural Arts Division. The release Thursday of funding amounts for FY..."

Sept. 17, 2018 Arts Post

City Cultural Arts Funding: One for the History Books

What do you call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with no furor or 11th-hour changes? How about 'historic'?

"...call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with little discussion and nary a..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...That the vitality of Austin's cultural scene is owed to its leaders – those..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts at Real Risk

"...Dear Editor, Recent changes to Austin’s arts funding grants don’t just “disrupt the city’s cultural..."

Oct. 27, 2024 Postmarks

An Artist on Arts Funding

"...Richard Whittaker for illuminating the problems with the city’s arts funding model ["City Arts Funding Skipped Established Arts Organizations...."

Nov. 2, 2024 Postmarks

City Arts Funding

A new clash over what arts groups are legally entitled to bed tax funds

"...Each year Austin Jazz Workshop introduces some 35,000 kids to the music..."

April 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Groups

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

"...The National Endowment for the Arts has made its annual impersonation of St. Nick and..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Get Going in 1995 Forward Motion

"...In arts circles, 1995 may be best remembered as the year..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"...As the city of Austin continues to divvy COVID-19 relief, music advocates are making..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Who Will Be the Arts Tsar?

The two finalists for the job of cultural arts program manager addressed the public Oct. 23.

"...The city's search for an Arts Tsar is down to a pair of finalists, and..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Medium Closes, Leaving a Void in Austin’s Art Scene

Loss of nonprofit puts future of Austin Studio Tours in question

"...Austin's creative community has been dealt another devastating blow with..."

Feb. 25, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Arts Groups Lose Promised Grant Money in Friday Night NEA Massacre

Leading Austin cultural institutions face slashed finances

"...An out-of-the-blue email from the National Endowment for the Arts has blown a massive hole in the finances and..."

May 5, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...city that’s supposed to care a lot about the arts, it’s always been an oddity that there’s no unified..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Threat to NEA Funding and Austin

How would the proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts hit Austin? Hard.

"...its founding in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has supplied money to artists and organizations all over..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Katarina Brown

City Opens Arts Education Grant Application Window

Nineteen $25,000 grants being offered to nonprofits

"...no secret that, between COVID and reduced corporate giving, funding for nonprofits has taken a hit, especially in the..."

Aug. 23, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Amplify Austin Is Needed Now, More Than Ever

This annual fundraising program amplifies the arts

"...Today is Amplify Austin Day...."

March 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money

Following last week’s Barracuda closure, a domino effect will continue without emergency city funding

"...the Red River Cultural District and Music Venue Alliance Austin warned that surveyed Austin venues had, on average, only..."

June 19, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Film Society Announces Recipients of 2024 Grants for Short Films

Rising filmmakers from around the state get essential support

"...the state and national level seem to be eying arts funding – and the existence of the arts in..."

Jan. 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin @ Large: Reading the Riot Act

I want a new central library, and I want it now

"...no "official" role to play in the world of Austin or Texas libraries. (I went from the State Library,..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

A Night at The Opera: Artists Sing Out at Arts Commision

"...Like most everyone else at the Dougherty Arts Center (DAC) on Monday, June 7, I am ready..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Feature

How $50,000 Is Shaking Up Austin's Black Artists Buried Treasure

"...funds lies in wait. Already ear-marked for the African-American arts community, it feels like an elusive miracle cure for..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Cultural Arts Program

Tracking the recent history and redevelopment of Austin's Cultural Arts Program

"...guideline to declare Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks ineligible to receive city funding, launching a four-month controversy...."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

A Day at The Races.... One Hour at the Mixed Arts Panel Review Session

"...Jim Bob McMillan, chair of the Mixed Arts panel, carries folding chairs into the meeting room in..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Feature

Colorblind Arts

"...Austin is a city whereleaders line up to express their..."

Oct. 16, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Arts Criticism

"...The Devastation of the NEA Grants Cut Grows," [Daily Arts, May 7]. It's a simple question: Is The Austin..."

May 22, 2025 Postmarks

Austin's Creative Clash

Austin's arts funding process leaves much to be desired -- and consulted.

"...auditors and outside consultants taking swings this week at Austin's arts-funding piñata, City Hall is awash in expertise. But..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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