One: Art Funding

Archival research for Art Worker was conducted at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American History and Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), and the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.

Music by The Grey Room

Episode art: Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands and Thimble (1919), Alfred Stieglitz, CC0 license, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Other sources:

• “Americans Speak Out About the Arts: An In-Depth Look at Public Perceptions and Attitudes About Arts & Culture in 2023.” Americans for the Arts. December, 2024. 1.
• Beech, Dave. “Introduction.” In Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics, 10-11. Boston: Brill, 2015.
• “Grants for Arts Projects.” National Endowment for the Arts. https://www.arts.gov/grants/grantsfor-arts-projects.
• “Grants Overview.” Georgia Council for the Arts. https://gaarts.org/grants/.
• “Historic Timeline.” Georgia Council for the Arts. https://gaarts.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/08/gca-timeline.pdf.
• Lampert, Nicolas. “Government-Funded Art: The Boom and Bust Years for Public Art.” In A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements, 148-49. New York: The New Press, 2013.
• “The National Council on the Arts: History and Purpose.” arts.gov.
• “Partnership Agreement Grants.” National Endowment for the Arts, 4-9. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/FY25-Partnership-Guidelines-SAA.pdf.
• “Raise Your Ranking.” National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. February 15, 2024. https://nasaa-arts.org/nasaa_research/raise-your-ranking/.
• Shaked, Nizan. “Introduction.” In Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections. 3-4. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.
• Smethurst, James. Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
• “State Arts Agency Legislative Appropriations Preview, Fiscal Year 2025.” National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. 2024. https://nasaa-arts.org/fy2025-legislative-appropriationspreview/.