Will the City Arts Stimulus Create Jobs for Artists?
Published April 15, 2009 at 4:22 p.m.
In his state of the city address last month, Mayor Eddie Perez announced what he called a Hartford arts stimulus—a proposed $1.7 million increase in grants to Hartford arts organizations to “create new works, new performances, and expand facilities.” He anticipated the stimulus would create hundreds of new jobs in the city—and would be used [...]