WYOMING ARTS COUNCIL SEEKS $290,000 IN NEA STIMULUS FUNDS TO PRESERVE AND CREATE ARTS JOBS
Submitted by Tommer on March 18, 2009
The job of preserving jobs has fallen in part to a small state agency that normally specializes in promoting the arts: The Wyoming Arts Council.
The council has applied for $290,000 in National Endowment for the Arts funding through the federal stimulus act. The money will be part of $50 million the NEA plans to dole out nationwide to preserve arts-related jobs while the nation struggles through recession.
Already the Wyoming Arts Council receives more NEA funding per capita than any other statewide arts agency, according to the NEA. The council got nearly $700,000 from the federal agency in 2008, or about $1.30 for each man, woman and child in Wyoming. Read More.