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Artist Colonies, 'Heat Shield' From Critics, May Get U.S. Funds
Twelve years after Congress ended most funding to individual artists, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) may reopen the flow of money to poets, musicians, writers and painters through artist colonies. The NEA, which is in line for a budget increase of as much as 28 percent next year, plans to direct some of the additional money to the hundreds of U.S. colonies and communities that provide artists with residencies, funding and, above all, creative freedom.
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