Funding for arts grants stays stable
While Connecticut’s arts funding will dwindle next year, the City of New Haven will continue to dole out grants to local artists.
The city of New Haven announced Monday that money allocated to the Mayor’s Community Arts Grant Program funding cycle would remain at $25,000. Though city leaders discussed cutting that funding at the Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee on Monday, the Director of Cultural Affairs for the city of New Haven, Barbara Lamb, said her office will try to sustain last year’s funding and programs.
“We’re trying desperately to keep everything the same,”...
