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Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

What is the state of the arts in America and where does Austin fit in the mix?

For every creative triumph in the Austin arts community in 2002 -- and they were plentiful -- there seemed to be a corresponding defeat, usually tied to the economic downturn and its problems for the arts community.

Vincent Kitch off to head the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in Seattle

Austin's arts scene plays 'the comeback kid' in 2004

Two new municipal funding schemes look to finally impact Austin music

With the Arts on Real, Blake Yelavich has managed to do what many other theatre groups in the city have been attempting to do, some for years upon years: create from scratch the premier alternative theatre facility in Austin.

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

Part One: The Artists' Application Process

The Applicants

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

The Applicants

Public arts funding doesn't get much messier than the City of Austin's Cultural Contracts Program, but this year's process may go down in history as the messiest yet.

The Arts Commission recommends to City Council that the arts funding application process be suspended for the coming year

Our readers talk back.

Austin's arts funding process leaves much to be desired -- and consulted.

The City Council on Tuesday approved its $1.8 billion budget for fiscal 2003, but not before mollifying some angry citizens and mopping up some of the blood on the floor.

The basic mechanism for funding artists will look the same, but the city of Austin's cultural contracts program will undergo some significant changes in structure

City arts funding revisions get a thumbs-up from council, theatre artists sing for cancer charities, and local playwrights meet and greet

Last week for comments on the revamp of the city's cultural funding process, and chroegrapher Ann Carlson returns to UT.

A snapshot of the impact that this year's 31% cut in Cultural Contract funding had on 10 Austin arts companies that were on a strong growth track and had that growth in city funding abruptly reversed.

City Council gets into its A-E-I-O-Us

Retiring director Rick Hernandez reflects on three decades with the Texas Commission on the Arts

The African-American Quality of Life plan gets aired out; NAACP unsatisfied

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