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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’?

by Robert Faires September 30, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Hold That Process

The Arts Commission recommends to City Council that the arts funding application process be suspended for the coming year

by Robert Faires April 1, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Heavy Weather

An unseasonably mild year of city arts funding ends in a tempest

by Robert Faires September 24, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

by Robert Faires September 3, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Cultural Arts Program

A Timeline for Controversy and Reform

by Chronicle Staff April 16, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

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

by Robert Faires April 16, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Who Will Be the Arts Tsar?

Finalists for the job of Austin’s cultural arts program manager address the public

by Robert Faires October 31, 2003September 30, 2025

Arts

Articulations

Last week for comments on the revamp of the city’s cultural funding process, and chroegrapher Ann Carlson returns to UT.

by Robert Faires October 17, 2003September 30, 2025

Arts

The city is hot to find “a creative, energetic, and innovative leader” to head its revamped Cultural Arts Program, now located in the city’s Economic Growth and Redevelopment Office, where it will coordinate support and advocacy for Austin’s performing arts, visual arts, music, film, and interactive communities.

by Robert Faires July 4, 2003September 30, 2025

Arts

Unkindest Cuts of All

A snapshot of the impact that this year’s 31% cut in Cultural Contract funding had on 10 Austin arts companies that were on a strong growth track and had that growth in city funding abruptly reversed.

by Robert Faires February 7, 2003September 30, 2025

Arts

Articulations

Public arts funding doesn’t get much messier than the City of Austin’s Cultural Contracts Program, but this year’s process may go down in history as the messiest yet.

by Robert Faires September 13, 2002September 30, 2025

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