In this episode, hosts Danie Kohn and Nathan Leigh look at the still in-limbo situation of arts funding for the upcoming year, the history and unfortunate//unsustainable legacy of the League of Resident Theatres, and the immediate impacts of cuts to arts funding for our beloved hosts. They chat about why authoritarians seek to control the arts, how we’ve gotten comfortable with mediocre and insufficient funding structures, and begin to ponder better structures for the future. “Humans will always want to make and consume art” - perhaps it’s the most human impulse that exists. Many of the questions in this episode revolve around support and livable compensation of artists.

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Arts funding in America has been nonexistent or woefully inadequate for most of our nation’s history. The administration’s 2025 cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts take a bad situation and makes it nearly impossible. In their debut episode, hosts Nathan Leigh and Danie Kohn analyze and discuss the available data on what projects had grants terminated or cancelled. They dive into the history of arts funding in America; a too brief tenure ripe with controversy from the very beginning.

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