NC Invests in the Arts

Our North Carolina legislature continues its proud policy of funding the arts. Unlike other states making cuts in the economic downturn, our leaders recognize that arts grants create jobs supporting the state’s creative industry. The N.C. General Assembly affirmed the arts as a good public investment by sustaining grant funding for the N.C. Arts Council at its existing level ($6.4 million) for the 2010–11 fiscal year. This year 354 grants for organizations and individual artists were awarded with $7.4 million in federal and state funds.

This investment will be returned — the 2009 Creative Industry report showed that creative individuals and businesses contribute $41.4 billion worth of products and services, nearly six percent of N.C.’s total production.

Read more about the grants awarded here.

Read more about the creative industry here.

Find the history of state grants in the arts here.