Tribpedia: Texas Commission On The Arts

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The Texas Commission on the Arts raises funds and awards grants to support the arts in Texas.

TCA grants are awarded for production, performance, exhibitions and cultural organizations. They also go toward arts education.

The agency also runs publicity campaigns to promote the arts and tourism in Texas.

The TCA seeks funding from the public and private sector. The agency ...

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State Encouraged to Use Arts as Economic Development

At the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Mary Fredrickson, left, an art conservator, discusses restoration work she's doing with Laura Huckaby, the museum's collections manager.
Enlarge photo by: Robert W. Hart
At the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Mary Fredrickson, left, an art conservator, discusses restoration work she's doing with Laura Huckaby, the museum's collections manager.

An aggressive effort is afoot to reframe the Texas Commission on the Arts as an engine for economic development and to give Texas’ designated cultural districts access to existing state incentive funds. “We’re being underutilized,” said Gary Gibbs, the commission’s executive director. “We have great potential to benefit the state."

Cow John and Old Ruidoso by Robert Summers. On display at the White Horse Station, a coffeeshop, event space, and art gallery, in Clifton, Texas.
Enlarge photo by: Todd Wiseman
Cow John and Old Ruidoso by Robert Summers. On display at the White Horse Station, a coffeeshop, event space, and art gallery, in Clifton, Texas.

Perry: Defund Texas Arts, Historical Commissions

  • by Christopher Smith Gonzalez and Andrew Weber
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Gov. Rick Perry wants two state agencies — the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Texas Historical Commission — defunded because they don’t provide “mission-critical” services. But what do they do? 

Enlarge photo by: Todd Wiseman

Texas Study Stresses Economic Progress Through Art

Creative industries — from advertising to dance companies to book publishing — generate $4.5 billion per year in economic activity for Texas, according to a new report released by the Texas Cultural Trust in association with the Texas Commission on the Arts. The report features projects in communities like Amarillo, El Paso, Rockport, Texarkana and the tiny, north central Texas town of Clifton, population 3,795. “It’s more than fluff,” says Amy Barbee, the Trust's executive director. “We want to tell the story that the arts truly are economic development.”