A 20-percent budget reduction for the Indiana Arts Commission will affect as many as 400 grant-dependent organizations
across the state. The agency’s overall budget will shrink from $4 million in 2009 to $3.2 million for the
next two fiscal years.
The gilded exhibit, a happy byproduct of the museum’s close relationship with an Egyptian institution, is more of a gift than
a major moneymaker.
Attend arts events, visit our cultural organizations, and support our sports teams. If you don’t make regular donations to
arts and cultural organizations, there has never been a better and more important time to give.
Some of Indianapolis’ main entrances from Interstate 70 are in line for a $2 million makeover.
The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis inspires passion for classical music across central Indiana through broadcast programming
and outreach.
The Athenaeum is seeking better name recognition in the community, with the help of a grant from the Indianapolis Foundation.
The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis has lost a major corporate gift less than two years from curtain time.
The Indianapolis Art Center works to engage, enlighten and enhance our communities through art education, participation
and observation.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will look to volunteers to help cover the work done by eight people who were laid off last week in a move to trim $600,000, or 2 percent, from the $29.5 million annual budget.
A panel convened by IBJ discusses the lack of funding dilemma and need for broad-based support in the Indianapolis arts community.
Some major foundations in central Indiana are narrowing grantmaking criteria so they can funnel their reduced asset streams
toward pressing needs brought on by the recession.
Indiana has its share of renowned dead writers, but the Indianapolis-Marion County Library Foundation is planning to recognize modern-day Hoosier scribes with a new and quite hefty prize.
The not-for-profit Indianapolis Historical and Educational Foundation is planning a police museum in the first floor of an old warehouse along Pennsylvania Street across from Conseco Fieldhouse.
Paul Hunt, a partner with Barnes & Thornburg, recently decided to pay seven months’ studio rent for two artists at Harrison
Center for the Arts. And the Columbia Club on Monument Circle is looking for new members.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s operating loss of $293,000 during the most recent fiscal year is not nearly as troubling
in the long term as the symphony’s shrinking endowment.
P.E. MacAllister has helped turn Indianapolis into a culturally vibrant city.
A commission that has drawn $12.5 million in grants and public money to promote Indianapolis’ artistic side is awaiting word
on its future.
These days, many Indianapolis arts organizations barely know where their next dollar will come from. But an innovative
fund-raising model that’s found success in other cities might provide that sorely needed cash. In Cincinnati,
a venerable not-for-profit called the United Arts Fund, founded in 1927, stages an annual workplace campaign,
then doles out the bountiful proceeds to local arts organizations.
Leaders of the 20-year-old Arts Council of Indianapolis want to broaden the organization’s approach to arts advocacy. They
say they’d like to act as a cultural broker of sorts, making sure local artists are connected with possible patrons.
