ARTS ALERT 1 - Cuts leave VSA arts programs for the disabled in limbo.

By Joe Heim, washingtonpost.com
Published: August 4, 2011

Supporters of VSA, the nation’s leading arts education organization for the disabled, are blaming a shortsighted Congress and indifferent Kennedy Center officials for extensive budget and staff cuts imposed on VSA this summer.

In mid-July, the Kennedy Center reduced VSA’s Washington-based office from 35 staff members to seven. And VSA’s federal funding, which was $9 million in last year’s budget, will probably be a third of that in the upcoming fiscal year.  “The Kennedy Center has essentially signed the death warrant for VSA,” said Scott Stoner...

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