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..."

Oct. 8, 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..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding

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

"...Jazz Workshop, Inc. serves as a model organization for city support and private sector support." Well, the Texas hotel..."

April 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding Tempest

Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern

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

Sept. 17, 2018 Arts Post

City Arts Funding Tempest

Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Robert Faires

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...After recipients of city cultural support reacted strongly to deep cuts in funding..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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'?

"...What do you call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Protests City's Funding 'Mikado'

"...Asian American Studies, we are writing to protest the city of Austin’s funding of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado,..."

June 20, 2011 Postmarks

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..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

The city takes feedback on its proposed improved cultural contracts system.

"...Citizens and local artists and arts groups got their first preview this week of the..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

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

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

Arts Commission's 1996-97 Recommendations

"...As of its meeting last week, the Arts Commission's recommendations put 24.71%, or just over half a..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...permit opponents' comments, Leaverton and others will lobby the City Council to support denial of the permit. -- Lauri..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two: Living Just Enough for the City

City sound limits and national anti-immigration movements share absolutism and intransigence

"...opposed to it, since it seemed a title a city should earn and not one that it should assume..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Music Workers Rally for Dedicated City Funding

Will Council reshape the SAVES Resolution at today’s meeting?

"...out during the Come & Save It rally at City Hall on Wednesday afternoon. “If you’re a musician… lighting..."

Sept. 17, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Conflicts of Interest at City Hall

Give and take, everywhere you look

"...who until January had also been registered with the city. Joslove's been accused of being in the pocket of..."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Cultural Arts Program

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

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

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

Colorblind Arts

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

Oct. 16, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Arts Consultants: Connect the Cultural Dots

The city's consultants recommend a new, one-stop shop and more funding for Austin's arts programs.

"...In the cover letter to her team's final report, arts consultant Lucille Dabney notes that "the timing of this..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

City Hall Hustle: Hustling the Budget

Council spreads a few extra dollars and covers its bets

"...impact on the citizenry: say, the adoption of the city of Austin 2008-09 municipal budget, passed in one fell..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...City Hall got a tiny bit of good news last..."

June 21, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

City Council Approves SAVES Resolution to Rescue Venues, Bars, Restaurants

City will explore potential funding sources for struggling sectors

"...As Austin’s iconic music and arts venues, bars, and restaurants continue to fold six months..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...The city Arts Commission has recommended that Austin use its current,..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature

City Hall Hustle: Eastside Discordance

The El Concilio players strut the stage

"...to prove the most controversial issue at any given City Council meeting...."

April 16, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...• City Council meets today (Thursday) with the second reading of..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature

After Free Week, Red River Cultural District Requests City Funding

Stressing increased rents and insurance rates to the Music Commission

"...Austin Music Commission to request financial support from the city...."

Jan. 9, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Council Recap: $15M in SAVES Funding for Venues, Child Care, Iconic Biz

Efforts to raid Convention Center reserves turned back

"...by Southwest was canceled and music venues throughout the city were forced to close, City Council has approved $15..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

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