How Arts Organizations Can Work More Closely With Governments

By Anne W. Howard

The Arts and State Governments: At Arm's Length or Arm in Arm?, by Julia F. Lowell and Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, explores the relationship between politics and state arts organizations. The report draws from a larger study commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, which looked at "the changing missions and roles" of state arts agencies. Using data from that study, this publication describes how, in keeping policy makers from exerting undue political