New Hampshire Spends Stimulus Money on Arts Programs
by Grant BosseThe New Hampshire State Council on the Arts has handed out $230,000 in federal stimulus money to help preserve jobs in the arts. The money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is the first round of $293,100 in total arts funding for the Granite State under the $787 billion stimulus package.
The Arts Council claims that the money will save 42 jobs at 12 music, theater, and visual arts and crafts organization throughout the state. The Governor and Council approved the grants last week:
- Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, Littleton, $20,000
- The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, $20,000
- Friends of the Arts Plymouth, $20,000
- Friends of the Colonial, Bethlehem, $20,000
- Haverhill Heritage, Inc., Haverhill, $20,000
- League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, Concord, $20,000
- Monadnock Music, Peterborough, $20,000
- N.H. Theatre Project, Portsmouth, $20,000
- North Country Center for the Arts, Lincoln, $20,000
- Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth, $20,000
- Saint Kieran Community Center, Berlin, $10,000
- Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, $20,000
This round of arts funding also includes a $50,000 grant to the Currier Museum in Manchester from the National Endowment for the Arts designed to support job retention in the arts workforce.
A report last week from New Hampshire’s Office of Economic Stimulus found that so far the stimulus has created or saved just over 3,000 jobs throughout New Hampshire, almost all in the public sector. That’s well behind White House projection of 16,000 jobs for the state, even though New Hampshire has spent roughly half of the federal money available. State stimulus director Orville “Bud” Fitch told the Legislative Fiscal Committee last week that he actually expects the job total to drop when the next report comes out in January because funding for many of this summer’s construction jobs will have ceased.
The arts grants average just under $5,500 for each job that the Arts Council claims to save. Jane Eklund is the Programs Information Officer with the State Council on the Arts. She says each organization had to identify how many jobs would be supported by the grants when it applied for the federal money.
“Each fund a permanent position, or artists that the organization is contracting with,” Eklund said. “Some are full-time, some are part-time, some make of these grants turn part-time positions into full-time.”
Eklund explains that the Arts Council will hand out the remaining federal grant money later, but that “this is the bulk of it.”
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Let's talk about art.
Nobody in the art world has discussed the specific "type" of art that the Administration is using. Granted, it reminds US all of the Soviet, and Nazi styles of the past, but there is a SPECIFIC name, and nobody has discussed it.
"Hagiography" is the specific styly, and it has specific purposes; namely PROPOGANDA.
"The art of hagiography arose early in the days of the Christian church, when it was used primarily as a propaganda tool. The idea was that by disseminating information about the lives of the saints, Christians could conceivably win converts. Hagiographies were far from dull accounts of history; they included inspirational stories and set up legends and myths about the people in them. Many hagiographies also included ghoulish descriptions of martyrdom, undoubtedly to appeal to people with more base sentiments.
In addition to being used to spread Christianity, hagiographies were also utilized as a tool to sanctify people.
Cont'd from above:
"Many notable ecclesiastical figures and other church authorities commissioned hagiographies of themselves in the hopes that they would later be venerated as saints, and this was sometimes successful. In all cases, a hagiography typically stressed the subject's bravery, intrepid spirit, and Christian faith."
There is our art lesson for the day. Buffy Wicks, Yosi Sargent and Barrack Hussein Obama have learned well and paid attention to history……
What's the point of the first post here? I, for one, am very willing to spend my time considering valid, well-reasoned arguments by a liberal or conservative, but gratutious snubs don't really seem to advance any argument or position.
Geez, that's the best you could come up with? You aren't really advancing the liberal cause. Try harder.
Funny, you seem to show up about the same time, every day. Somewhere between 2:45 and 3 Pm. Is that the time your shift begins? I sure hope you're getting paid minimum wage, with Health Care bennies thrown in.
What's wrong with supporting the arts?
Let me get this straight:
42 jobs at 230,000 = $5476 per job, which assuming 52 paychecks as year gives $105 per paycheck. This breaks down at 20 hours/week to $5.27/hour or at 40 hours per week to $2.63/hour. Now that all assumes NO taxes of anykind. I thought the minimum wage was around $8/hour. Are these jobs going to legal aliens?
So the arts council wants us to believe it's better to spend a quarter of a million dollars to help 42 people out that would be better off working at a fast food joint and painting on the side?
Yeah Nazis weren't big govt. morons, neither was Mau, you're real bright.
I have a very simple solution, No govt. funding for the arts. next issue…
support the arts with your money, where the hell in the constitution does it give power to the govt. to support the arts, its absurd.
Only this website could go from a picture of Lenin to “The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, $20,000″, as if that was evidence of a communist takeover. Really, it borders on self-parody.
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I'm an artist, I'm unemployed, and I'm buried under student loans. As much as I would appreciate being given money to make my artwork, I would find this insulting. How in the world does this help anyone, much less provide a means for an artist to live on?
It's a massive waste of the taxpayers' money, and artists just need to accept the fact that they'll have to work for their money, just like anybody else. If you're unmarketable, that's no one's fault but your own.
The acronym, NAZI, stood for National SOCIALIST Workers Party.
Lots, when it is commissioned propaganda by the state, or rather, Obama.
Many of the so-called "artists" that were kept afloat by the WPA, were writers and actors who put on rabidly MARXISTS/COMMUNIST plays. It would have been far better if they had been forced to clean streets or build roads for their governmenmt stipends.
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I agree with the stupid part in your handle anyway
You can support whatever hobbies or propganda you like with your money
Taking my money out of my pocket to support your hobbies or propoganda is a whole different question.
The general welfare clause is so misused it should just be revoked, I feel constitutional convention coming on in 2012, oh what will all the little freeloaders do then? I can already see the pee and fece's stained painties when they are told they are no longer owed a living.
No self paraody is what happens when you look in the mirror.
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Thank you for telling that ignoramus what he belongs too, but he is probably too stupid to really get it.
I normally don't get into name calling specially on forums, but I'll make an exception in this case.
No problem with supporting the arts, is that the role of the stimulus? It was a crisis, our infrastructure was collapsing, we needed to create shovel ready jobs by Friday, or the whole country was going to go to H** in a hand basket. None of these projects respond to the needs. How many permanent jobs did they create? How much infrastructure that benefits the country was repaired? In what way did it stimulate the economy? Billions pi***d away on c**p let's face it.
Is there something wrong with money to support people whose jobs are in the arts? — or is the thinking along the lines of what happens when the school budget needs to be balanced and so they cut school funding for art and music programs in schools as the first thing to get rid of? People that work in theaters as technicians, or teach art or create art of some kind should not find any stimulus money alloted to them when other job sectors do? What is the point of this article? You know, dear politcal conservatives, — of which I am one– don't assume all people in the arts are liberals, and don't alienate creative people with articles that imply their profession or work isnt real work or worthy of support– they may want to champion your cause. …….continued in following post
I do not like the politicization of the NEA by the Obama admin AT ALL, But if the money does not come with a "make art that supports us" clause attached, then I think its no any differnt than funding that goes out under Republican adminstrations either., Yes I am aware of the confrerence call where an NEA official tried to get artists to make Pro Obama work, but do not assume artists are gonna be told what to do and do it.
This article really bothers me from the standpoint that it seems to be hinting that the Arts as a profession are somehow less worth a penny of support than other professions or the assumption that every creatvie person or person who works in support of art production is plotically liberal.
I have a BFA in Art. (but not currently working in that field)
FYI… Broward County, Florida, rec'd 250K in arts funding, but have not yet posted where the money specifically went.
http://www.broward.org/arts/general/stimulus.htm
That's probably the best solution I've heard so far.
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Art as a political medium should never be funded by taxpayers. It is the dream of almost every artist to be supported by the state. Whenever this happens, the artist and the art eventually becomes degraded to the point where the artist gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to present garbage. And by "garbage", I mean rubbish, literally. Go in to almost any museum of modern art and almost all of them have a rubbish pile, presented as art, for which the artist was paid. The SFMOMA even has a nice pile of red dirt with a velvet rope around it. (This is not sarcasm, or an exaggeration). it seems to be the point where the public art pendulum eventually comes to rest.
As a conservative, I find this one of the few intelligent comments to the article. Thanks Zipper77.
Without a poster of Obama mugging with his nose up in the air the country is kaput
palmtree, since your so self proclaimes smart with nothing to back it up, give me your best concise definition of communism.
IS THIS IS JUST ANOTHER JOKE AMONG QUASI INTELLECTUALS????
We must ponder the true gift of art and enjkoy same, when and if we choose to visit one of these out dated museums…..and when we do we should be charged a heavy entry fee to see the art first hane in perosn. But, excuse me, if I do not choose to visit these so called art museums, then why should I pay for it??? I would rather look at art on the internet, in the comfort of my own home, and get the same thrill, as most get in person…….let them pay for it, if and when they participate…….
Liberal= NAZI wannabe
Art is in the eye of the beholder. If enough people do not view that an artist's work is worth buying then is the Government obligated to support that artist with tax monies? I think not.
Propaganda! You can't take control without propaganda! Lenin siad it as well as several of Obama's advisor czars! The money the government is spending on art is so they can then have the artist beholden to them and they can demand that the artist make propaganda for them to use against our children and the mentally slow! its how the communists did it and eevryone invoved with Obama is either a commie or a facist. Wake up America! Call a spade a spade! It's uneithical and illegal for the administration to try and use the NEA to push it's agenda against the American people! Speak up! Yell to the roof tops! Stop! it's up to you America! Only you can save your country from becoming a dictatorship! Wake up America! Wake up!
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