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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 22:34:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Downs <[log in to unmask]>
To: Art Criticism Discussion Forum
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Subject: ACTION ALERT
 
>From An Action Alert from Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania:
 
NEA FUNDING IN JEOPARDY - CALL SENATORS
 
THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, Chaired by Senator Robert Byrd
(D_WV) has recommended a 5% cut in NEA funding for FY 1995.
 
Last week, Senator Byrd and Senator Nickles (R-OK), the Interior
Appropriations subcommittee's ranking Republican member, expressed deep
concern in a strongly worded letter to NEA Chair Jane Alexander about the
NEA's funding of the Ron Athey performance at the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis. They also warned that future NEA funding is in jeopardy
without safeguards to ensure that programs and projects they find "
grossly improper" are not undertaken.
 
The committee's action to recommend a 5% cut is NOT JUST AN ACROSS THE
BOARD REDUCTION, BUT WOLD TARGET MORE THAT $7 MILLION IN REDUCTIONS IN
THE THEATRE, VISUAL ARTS, AND INTER ARTS PROGRAMS of the endowment -
meaning arbitrary cuts of up to 45% in some of those programs.
 
CALL SENATORS BEFORE JULY 8TH - AT
202-224-3121 Senate
202-225-3121 House
Either number will actually work for either
 
THE MESSAGE: "I URGE YOU TO ELIMINATE THE PROPOSED 5% REDUCTION TO FY 95
NEA FUNDING AND TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ARBITRARY CUTS TO SELECTED NEA
PROGRAMS."