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'?

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

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Arts Program

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

"...April 2001: Cultural Contracts Program staff uses a new program guideline to..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

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

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

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

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

"...presentations at schools across Central Texas. Sounds like a cultural enterprise worthy of our tax dollars, right? Kirk Watson..."

April 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Cultural Affairs Division

Vincent Kitch off to head the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in Seattle

"...years of working for the city of Austin on arts and cultural issues and heads to Seattle to serve..."

March 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

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

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

Cultural Shifts

The basic mechanism for funding artists will look the same, but the city of Austin's cultural contracts program will undergo some significant changes in structure

"...overall mechanism by which the city funds artists and cultural organizations will look much like it has in the..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After Free Week, Red River Cultural District Requests City Funding

Stressing increased rents and insurance rates to the Music Commission

"...Nicole Klepadlo, Red River Cultural District interim executive director, spoke at the inaugural 2024..."

Jan. 9, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...The "someone" was Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Festival working in partnership, and their benevolence..."

Sept. 4, 2020 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

City Announces Art Space Assistance Program

Art spaces with rising rents are eligible for rent stipends and tenant improvements

"...The city announced its new Art Space Assistance Program (ASAP) last Wed., June 21, to help arts organizations..."

June 30, 2017 News Feature by Maria Mendez

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

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.

"...notoriously high costs upon reopening. Per a Red River Cultural District recommendation, two resolutions passed last Thursday by the..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...corner of Red River and Ninth. The Red River Cultural District sign, a late addition compared to the rest,..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: City Council Supports Music-Focused Arts Facility on East 11th Street

Harold McMillan breaks down civic steps to the envisioned Kenny Dorham Center

"...In 2007, Austin City Council created an African American Cultural Heritage District in East Austin, recognizing the home to..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Cultural Evolution

New Directions for Mexic-Arte Museum

"...to establish a place for Mexic-Arte Museum among Austin's arts organizations, Herlinda Zamora was still finishing high school. Now,..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature

New Funding, New Era, New Stages for the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex

East Austin fixture will be an arts hub via Cultural Trust investment

"...first sites to benefit from the city of Austin’s Cultural Trust, and general manager Kim Wright believes that investment..."

March 28, 2023 Arts Post by Joelle DiPaolo

Austin's Airport Art Program Makes Every Flight a Trip to the Gallery

Got some time at AUS? There's many distractions in plane sight.

"...what some of the people who live in these parts choose to express about their lives, their physical environment,..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Music Workers Rally for Dedicated City Funding

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

"...capital of the world’ is us. We need dedicated funding.”..."

Sept. 17, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom. The..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...Vincent Kitch, Austin's first official arts tsar, is tackling a task almost as mythic in..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rancho Alegre Fundraises to Save Their Conjunto Festival During AmplifyATX

Cut from city arts funding, Alegre aims to raise 35k this week

"...effects of a change in how the city distributes Cultural Arts funding paid for by local hotel taxes...."

Feb. 28, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...board in utter frustration. As the City of Austin arts funding system -- formally known as the Cultural Contracts..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...out money to a broad range of artists and arts organizations each year, mostly in very small amounts --..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...similarly protracted string of blistering attacks on the city's Cultural Contracts program. In years past, the panels evaluating applicants..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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