Abstract
The commonly held perception that the government provides all of the funding for the arts, distributed through the National Endowment for the Arts, is inaccurate and misleading. In truth, private and corporate donations account for a substantial part of the money that is distributed nationally each year. In the current economic environment, a partnership between the government, corporate and private donors represents an attractive scenario in which the arts would thrive free of the influence of the government. In this paper, it is argued that a more expansive concept of arts funding must be realized if the nation is ...