In this paper, Steven J. Tepper argues that arts funding needs to work with the commercial world of entertainment in continuing to nurture a wide range of arts and artists. He argues that public and private funding of the arts can be combined to make a sum greater than the parts. This new frontier of financing the arts will promote the value of localism, linking the arts to a specific community, by using public resources to promote these values. Author Steven J. Tepper is associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and an assistant professor of sociology, Vanderbilt University. Previously he was deputy director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the department of sociology. He has published articles in the areas of the sociology of art, cultural policy and democracy and public space and is currently completing a book on cultural conflict in 75 American cities. To view the document online, CLICK HERE.

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