A Biden Cabinet Secretary For Arts? Advocates Are Hopeful
The new mural of Roy Orbison in Vernon, Texas.
Ann Arnold-Ogden
Arts and culture make up a huge, $877 billion industry that generates more than five million jobs across the country. But the amount of federal funding for the arts is tiny when compared with smaller industries like agriculture so what are arts organizations hoping for under the Biden administration?
The National Endowment for the Arts gives grants to organizations across the country from big ones like Lincoln Center and NPR to small ones like the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture. West Texas Wichita Falls. We re not in Kansas, says executive director Margie Reese, who adds that her group used one of their NEA grants to commission regional artists to make murals in economically distressed areas.