Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force

“It’s a great opportunity for the cultural work force to be dignified as part of the American work force,” she said in an interview.

Of course $50 million is too meager a sum to rescue major arts groups, even as flailing institutions like the Detroit Institute of Arts reel from budget cuts. Arts executives with worried constituent groups are in many cases philosophical and say they expect the stimulus money to be spread widely.