On Wednesday, February 12, the Charles County Arts Alliance will join over 400 arts advocates from across the State of Maryland to rally and meet with local elected officials to express how important the arts are to us. We will stress how we, the citizens of Charles County, benefit directly from annual grant funding provided by the Maryland State Arts Council. On January 15, Governor Martin O’Malley introduced his eighth and final Maryland State Budget Request for FY 2015, and in that budget, public support for the arts reaches an all-time high in Maryland! He proposed $3 million in additional funding available to Maryland’s arts organizations. This will mean a record breaking $19 million year for arts funding, with Maryland State Arts Council’s total budget at $17.1 million and $2 million for special fund supplemental grants focused on organizational capacity building for arts organizations. The Maryland Arts Day program features keynote speaker Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Fred Lazarus IV, winner of the 2014 “Sue Hess Maryland Arts Advocate of the Year” award; and Governor Martin O’Malley, who will receive the “Outstanding Leadership in the Arts” award.” Let your voice be heard! Registration for […]
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