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This discussion is skewed.  Arts are a fundamental measurement of education and culture. I sincerely doubt that you would host a discussion about  the value of reading for our population.  Art speaks to all parts of of human development.  The arts community does just about everything on a a voluntary basis to improve its communities. When will the educational establishment reintegrate arts into its curriculum? Art is equivalent to the value of water in a watershed.

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It would be interesting to re-spin this conversation. What if individual artists were the measure of funding? Most conversations about arts funding focus on administrators, organizations, corporations,etc. The life of the artist is secondary. In some countries, individual artists receive stipends to support the development of their intellectual property eg. their art. I would like to be informed about how much of the money raised through all funding sources end up paying salaries and benefits for arts administrators? Artists need reasonable places to live and benefits,too.

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