Julie Fry Publishes Op-Ed on the Importance of Federal Arts Funding
Submitted by Monica on March 1, 2017
GIA member and California Humanities CEO Julie Fry recently penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle urging the importance of federal arts funding:
The arts and humanities are good for the success of young people and good for the economy, and we all benefit from that. As Johnson said back in 1965, this is about more than just the money: “It is in the neighborhoods of each community that a nation’s art is born. … The arts and the humanities belong to the people, for it is, after all, the people who create them.”
Our country is richer when the federal government supports and values the arts and humanities. This is not a luxury item. This is who we are as a people.