Updated Jul 8, 2009 - 2:34 pm

Arts director defends $500,000 stimulus funding

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Federal stimulus dollars are coming to the aid of area arts and cultural programs. The City of Seattle and King County's cultural services agency, 4Culture, announced Tuesday they will receive $500,000 in federal stimulus funding.

Jim Kelly, Executive Director of 4Culture, says the money is not going to be spent on art projects.

"This is jobs, jobs, jobs. This is not for art projects. It's for personnel and it's for artists. It's not for producing public art," he said.

Kelly defends the idea of helping those employees. "They're raising money, they're producing events, they're producing theatre, they're producing visual arts exhibits. They're producing them for whom? They're producing them for the community, for people who attend these organizations' exhibits."

Arts Programs in the City of Seattle and King County are also set to benefit from $250,000 grant awarded to each by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Local nonprofit arts organizations can apply for their portion of the funds by submitting an application to the city or the county by August 10th.

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• JWA wrote...

  Art Progjects

  They could start with a sprinkler system, lawn mower and competent management. The art walk is not worth looking at in the condition found today. The pictures on the site and actual conditions today have nothing in common. It is weed choked mess. Typical of the thousands spent on landscaping around this city and county only to have go to "pot" in a few months after the pictures are taken and the Politian’s waddle back to their desks. WA

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• AnimalFarmUSA1 wrote...

  Should have given tax breaks

  Tax breaks instead of stimulus money was the better way to go. Too late. We're screwed. Individual business owners would have made better business decisions with the money than any central government agency ever could. Just look at how great the Soviet Union did with central planning.

  July 8, 2009 10:30 pm

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