The State Council on the Arts approves $28 million in state funds and $7.5 million in federal funds, with another $4 million for capital projects to come.
Now called the New Jersey Arts and Culture Administrators of Color, its three original partners, New Jersey Theatre Alliance, ArtPride New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, have welcomed a fourth, Newark Symphony Hall.
Many New Jersey municipalities and school districts have things like booster clubs to facilitate fundraisers for their arts programs. But in this city, a long-running nonprofit organization devoted to that purpose continues to find new ways to bring in the bucks.
A measure recently advanced by committees in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature would hike the minimum amount of funding devoted to the state's arts, historical and tourism organizations.