According to a report published by the Hill, President-elect Trump is planning significant cuts to federal programs, including the departments of Transportation, Commerce and Energy. What else is on the chopping block? The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. And, according to the report, they’re not just going to get budgetary cuts—they’re going to be eliminated. This matters.
The United States already barely supports the arts at all in comparison to other developed countries. But still, the NEA and NEH are crucial for the survival of arts and cultural organizations around the country. Best known for supporting the fine arts, these organizations also support many architectural initiatives under the rubric of “Design”, a category which here covers: “architecture, communications and graphic design, fashion design, historic preservation, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape architecture, planning, universal design, social impact/public interest/human centered design, rural design, and urban design.”
What kind of projects are supported by the NEA? AIA conferences, for one. But also: design competitions; architecture exhibitions; designs and plans for new cultural buildings as well as districts, neighborhoods, public spaces and landscapes; community workshops for design projects; neighborhood planning activities; residencies; socially-oriented design initiatives; adaptive reuse of historic buildings; historic and community preservation projects; conferences and symposia; educational initiatives; and much, much more.
Groups like the American Architecture Foundation, the Architectural League of New York, Architecture for Humanity, the Association of Architecture Organizations, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture rely on NEA funding to support their programs. And architects depend on these organizations to cultivate discourse, professional networking, and the advancement of the field more broadly.
Should the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment of the Humanities be eliminated, there will be significant ramifications for both the field and the built environment in general. Check out what projects are funded by the NEA here.
Big guy, big guy, big guy.
Spending on these things is miniscule. This is just trump - as have many R's in the past - grandstanding for his uneducated constituents who are afraid of curiosity.
The opinion that govt should not be involved in art actually requires a very long debate. You didn't even attempt to engage it, Just demonized the person and declared your view superior. I'd say Art is the most important thing in society, so my views are not what you may assume. The idea that govt should fund the arts is also not something I necessarily object to so long as they are soley in the business of writing checks and not determining content and not preventing me from creating as I please. I just cant see why jgalt should burn alive for having such an opinion. Its not like he's calling for the execution of all puppies.
This sucks. Art is a key export of this country, its value incalculable. Obviously a despot move, though who knows if it will happen.
The public/private debate is pretty tired on both sides. The reality is public (education, arts, etc) create much future private business. People say "government shouldn't be in the art business" but they miss the point. The joke is every CEO is a failed musician or poet--that is very true.
As for "design and architecture" liberal media already abandoned architecture a long time ago for lazy political grandstanding and narratives.
"I'd say Art is the most important thing in society" and "Art is the only exceptional thing americans do" - can these statements be clarified or contextualized? The come across as meaningless statements not provocative; at face value they are easily rejected.
The NEA is a key organization not in promoting the arts but in promoting public access to the arts! As for design and architecture, the line between art and utility is often blurred, more so by private commissioning, so I would suggest maybe there is a role for publicly funded work that can deliver ideas outside the marketplace?
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Big guy, big guy, big guy.
Spending on these things is miniscule. This is just trump - as have many R's in the past - grandstanding for his uneducated constituents who are afraid of curiosity.
Design should not be government funded. It makes for nice cocktail parties and SJW architects to not build, but ultimately allows another layer of what 'SHOULD' be built. Get the bureaucrats out of architecture and leave it to the actual architect and his/her client!
Fuck off, objectivist tool. Ayn Rand did her best to ruin architecture. Put most of you Randian bullshitters on an island objectivist style and you'd die of starvation, smelling of feces and individual failure.
Wow Pete, thats why political Dialogue is impossible.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YES, YOU.
JOHN GALT, IS A THIRD RATE PUNK.
Love how you single out my response but not his nuance-free post, which eschews dialogue or subtlety in lieu of buzzwords and labels.
Good to know you're looking for balance in your political views, jla.
The opinion that govt should not be involved in art actually requires a very long debate. You didn't even attempt to engage it, Just demonized the person and declared your view superior. I'd say Art is the most important thing in society, so my views are not what you may assume. The idea that govt should fund the arts is also not something I necessarily object to so long as they are soley in the business of writing checks and not determining content and not preventing me from creating as I please. I just cant see why jgalt should burn alive for having such an opinion. Its not like he's calling for the execution of all puppies.
Yeah. I definitely logged the first demonizing viewpoint that didn't allow for dissent or discussion on this article. For sure. Not being sarcastic at all here. Promise.
Anyone who registers on a forum using john galt as a username isn't going to get anywhere with me. If that makes you think less of me, I'm surprised. I thought you had bottomed out on your dislike a long time ago.
I don't dislike you, I just dislike the demonization of ideas that aren't inherintly evil.
beta - almost sounds like - You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy! (pink flloyd, although I never realized he said bikesheds). another brick in the wall. architecture.
This sucks. Art is a key export of this country, its value incalculable. Obviously a despot move, though who knows if it will happen.
The public/private debate is pretty tired on both sides. The reality is public (education, arts, etc) create much future private business. People say "government shouldn't be in the art business" but they miss the point. The joke is every CEO is a failed musician or poet--that is very true.
As for "design and architecture" liberal media already abandoned architecture a long time ago for lazy political grandstanding and narratives.
Art is the only exceptional thing americans do.
Jla-x, you are a confused pile of dung. Go, I said it.
"I'd say Art is the most important thing in society" and "Art is the only exceptional thing americans do" - can these statements be clarified or contextualized? The come across as meaningless statements not provocative; at face value they are easily rejected.
The NEA is a key organization not in promoting the arts but in promoting public access to the arts! As for design and architecture, the line between art and utility is often blurred, more so by private commissioning, so I would suggest maybe there is a role for publicly funded work that can deliver ideas outside the marketplace?
Most successful company in the U.S. Is successful because of design.
^Wallmart?
How so?
We have breed the worlds greatest artists and designers. From Jazz, Rock, hiphop, film, Painters, Sculptures, designers, engineers, tech, etc . Whole new genres of art were invented here. USA is a creative force like no other. We are not #1 in many things anymore, but Id say we are in the arts and design. To not capitalize on that is foolish. Thats what I meant.
US exports
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-creative-industries-add-504-662691
Sod, confusing to you maybe but not confused.
#1 in arts and design, alright alright alright - i needed a good laugh today, thanks
is there any other country that produces as much cultural content as the US? Music, film, etc....
Over the last 100 years us is #1 by far
I guess you are counting "the apprentice" and miley as "cultural content", then yes, you are absolutely right, nobody beats the us, nobody damn it!
For every Miley there are a dozen Miles.
Lets not forget all the great anerican architects, designers, inventors either....but yeah hating on america was cool in 10th grade.
Learn
fuck trump.
Time to put our petty differences aside and stop this nascent fascism.
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