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Arts worth 46 cents per year

The Trump administration is threatening to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which is 0.012 percent (about one one-hundredth of one percent) of the federal budget. The arts are just as important to our cultural heritage as our national parks. They need to be protected, promoted and preserved for all to enjoy not available only to the wealthy. The NEA has supported arts programs in each congressional district in the country. Also the arts bring tourism to communities, create jobs and promote our culture to the rest of the world but most of all improve our quality of life.

The Spokane Folklore Society Fall Folk Festival has been a recipient of grant monies from the NEA several times. These grants helped us get started, become stable and keep the festival free so that everyone in our community can enjoy our local and regional folk, ethnic and international traditions.

The NEA costs each American 46 cents per year. It is well worth it. Please call your congressional representatives to ask them to support federal funding for the arts.

Sylvia Gobel

Spokane

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