Using the Arts to Pay for the Arts: A Proposed New Public Funding Model

Abstract

Stipulating that public funding for arts in the United States is inadequate and unstable, the author reviews a series of alternatives to annual Congressional appropriations. Referencing precedents in Canada and Europe, they propose a new system of funding that would rely on a user fee levied on ticket books, art sales, blank media, and downloads. Such a system would need to be enacted just once and would result in an annual flow of grant funds to the arts vastly in excess of the current level. A new role for the current National Endowment for the Arts is discussed, as are logistical and political challenges.

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