The first thing he’d put on the NEA chairman’s to-do list would be to “rebuild the individual artists’ grants,” which were taken away by Congress during the cultural wars of the 1990s.

He = Steven D. Lavine, president of Cal Institute for the Arts. I agree fully - restoring the individual artists’ grants is critical in undoing the harm done in the early 90s and re-establishing the government’s support for the arts.

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