Does the NEA Need Saving?
Abstract
What are the stakes in saving the NEA, today? Departing from the recent legislative
back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and Congress over the budgetary future
of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), this performance analysis of the NEA’s
31 March 2017 meeting of the National Council on the Arts reveals the complex political
posturing that undergirds federal support for the arts in US culture.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17245Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1162/DRAM_a_00694Publication Info
(2017). Does the NEA Need Saving?. TDR/The Drama Review, 61(4). pp. 96-106. 10.1162/DRAM_a_00694. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17245.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Sarah Wilbur
Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance
Sarah Wilbur is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Dance with a secondary appointment
in Theater Studies at Duke University. She researches US arts labor, economics, and
infrastructures in an ongoing struggle to make sense of the intertwined economic and
kinesthetic dimensions of local artists' work. She is the author of Funding Bodies:
Five Decades of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts (2021), the first
book-length look at the shaping infl
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