Indiana

Raiders of the Lost Art

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Public funding for the arts will be the first casualty of tough financial times in Indianapolis.

City-County Council President Bob Cockrum told me Tuesday that the current funding for the art $1.5 million will be phased out by $500,000 a year over the next three years.  Cockrum said with tough times it’s not fair to have the property taxpayers pay for art programs. 

He told the local Arts Council that the city would do what it could to help the arts raise money but funding will no longer come from the city which faces a $26 million budget shortfall this year.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).