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The Arts Funder Created To Get Away From The Culture Wars Fought Over The NEA

ISSUES Posted: May 16, 2019 5:31 am

In 2006, weary of the endless political battles over the NEA and worried about the cuts to its funding, the Ford, Prudential, Rockefeller, and Rasmuson Foundations joined forces to create a private-sector equivalent, United States Artists. Says former chair Susan Berresford, “There was an idea that outside the government, there could be an endowment to free yourself from understandable political pressures [in order] to take some risks.” – New York Observer

ISSUES Published: 05.15.19

Read the story in New York Observer Published: 05.15.19

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