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On Wednesday morning, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his search for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-advances-reimagined-citywide-arts-and-culture-strategy-to-support-san-franciscos-recovery\">a new executive director\u003c/a> to oversee the city’s three art agencies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s executive director of arts and culture, to be paid between $210,678 and $268,814, will head a new agency to “unify the work” of the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), Grants for the Arts (GFTA) and the Film Commission (Film SF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12071507' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec4.jpg']But by the afternoon, news broke that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071507/financial-crisis-forces-sfs-mission-cultural-center-for-latino-arts-to-close\">Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\u003c/a> (MCCLA) had suddenly and indefinitely closed. The nonprofit arts center, a Mission District hub since its founding by artists and community members in 1977, had run out of operating funds and left its empty building — owned by the city — in the hands of the SFAC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined with the news of California College of the Arts’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13985413/california-college-of-the-arts-sfai-mills-art-school-closures\">upcoming closure\u003c/a>, layoffs at the performing arts space \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13985512/san-francisco-counterpulse-union-labor-dispute\">CounterPulse\u003c/a>, the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968003/contemporary-jewish-museum-closing-galleries-layoffs\">continued limbo state\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13984752/jack-fischer-gallery-closing-minnesota-street-project\">gallery\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978734/how-to-save-bay-area-theater-from-collapse-and-closures\">theater\u003c/a> closures across the city, MCCLA’s struggles top off an avalanche of recent bad news. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just so much happening,” Rachelle Axel tells KQED. “And the very local arts community of San Francisco hasn’t really been feeling like there’s been adequate attention to what has been going on.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axel is just three weeks into a new position as executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.betterbayarea.org/\">Arts for a Better Bay Area\u003c/a> (ABBA), a regional arts advocacy group that in 2018 rallied crucial support to pass San Francisco’s Prop E, which reallocated 1.5% of hotel tax revenue to arts and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Axel sees the new \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.crelate.com/portal/berkeleysearchconsultants/job/4b9bkeys6a4q3ma7ufbwrqh86a\">job posting\u003c/a> as a good sign, even as she expresses frustration with the slow speed at which it was put out. (Lurie first mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/sfac-gfta-sffilm-to-unite-20352144.php\">unifying the three arts organizations\u003c/a> under a single leader back in May 2025.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of talk about the arts leading revitalization efforts,” Axel says, “but when it’s been no activity for eight months out of the 12 months that the new administration has been in place, it feels like it’s a bit more talk and less action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, merging the city’s arts and film agencies makes a certain sense. Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/\">SFAC\u003c/a> provides grants to individual artists, arts nonprofits and the city’s seven cultural centers, in addition to funding public art projects. It also organizes exhibitions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/our-role-impact/programs/sfac-galleries\">two gallery spaces\u003c/a>, one in the War Memorial Veterans Building, the other in City Hall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13875611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cece Carpio sifts through the SFAC Galleries’ 50-year history in ‘The Capricorn Chronicles,’ a 2020 gallery show. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--grants-arts\">GFTA\u003c/a> provides general operating support to San Francisco arts nonprofits, including festivals and parades. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--office-economic-and-workforce-development--film-sf\">Film SF\u003c/a> helps filmmakers get shooting permits and fee rebates, and operates one granting opportunity. (Now housed under the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Film SF is clearly the odd man out here.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s announcement said the merger aimed for “simpler grant applications, better-aligned timelines, and ensuring resources continue to reach working artists.” Current leaders of all three agencies (Ralph Remington at the SFAC, Kristen Jacobson at GFTA, and Manijeh Fata at Film SF) will keep their jobs, but are also welcome to apply to the executive director position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many questions remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October and November of 2025, the mayor’s office and the three agencies organized a series of community meetings around the merger, seemingly to answer some of those questions. At the Oct. 28 meeting I attended, consultants asked the audience — mostly former grantees and agency employees — “What concerns you about the merger?” and “What opportunity does the merger offer?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My table could come up with few opportunities. All were worried, especially those who had experienced years of shifting priorities from the SFAC and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908328/frustrating-delays-in-city-funding-affect-over-200-sf-arts-nonprofits\">delays from GFTA\u003c/a>, that this merger would decrease the funding available to arts nonprofits. In a recent email, ABBA summarized the proceedings as leaving hundreds of attendees “with little information, and a sense of uncertainty about the future of these entities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg\" alt=\"white man in suit gestures with one hand at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965110\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024, when he was participating in the Arts Town Hall Mayoral Forum, produced by Arts for a Better Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration was already on rocky ground with the arts community. In June, the SFAC attempted to change the way it distributes money to nonprofits, capping payment advances at 50% and requiring more paperwork in the form of quarterly reports. Nonprofit leaders mobilized to protest the sudden changes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/art-funding-san-francisco-20392389.php\">were granted a temporary reprieve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understandably, much of Lurie’s focus has been on San Francisco’s downtown, for both economic and symbolic reasons. Partnerships with nonprofits and private donors have created programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibrantsf.org/\">Vacant to Vibrant\u003c/a> (which connects local businesses to empty retail spaces), and brought in grants like \u003ca href=\"https://www.svaneff.org/cultureforward\">Culture Forward\u003c/a>, given out by the Svane Family Foundation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Axel points out, people need the arts in every corner of San Francisco — which is why accessible spaces like MCCLA are so important. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This stuff is happening downtown and it’s new and shiny,” she says. “But there’s not a lot of attention about or conversation with the arts organizations around the rest of the city — the ones that are working in communities, the cultural centers that have been there for decades and decades and have an incredible impact in their communities.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s arts organizations, even its most longstanding institutions, are clearly vulnerable right now. In the time it takes to hire an executive director of arts and culture — and for that person to stabilize San Francisco’s arts sector, let alone strengthen it — we may see even more announcements like yesterday’s from MCCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is all to say: hurry up, before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axel is just three weeks into a new position as executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.betterbayarea.org/\">Arts for a Better Bay Area\u003c/a> (ABBA), a regional arts advocacy group that in 2018 rallied crucial support to pass San Francisco’s Prop E, which reallocated 1.5% of hotel tax revenue to arts and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Axel sees the new \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.crelate.com/portal/berkeleysearchconsultants/job/4b9bkeys6a4q3ma7ufbwrqh86a\">job posting\u003c/a> as a good sign, even as she expresses frustration with the slow speed at which it was put out. (Lurie first mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/sfac-gfta-sffilm-to-unite-20352144.php\">unifying the three arts organizations\u003c/a> under a single leader back in May 2025.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of talk about the arts leading revitalization efforts,” Axel says, “but when it’s been no activity for eight months out of the 12 months that the new administration has been in place, it feels like it’s a bit more talk and less action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, merging the city’s arts and film agencies makes a certain sense. Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/\">SFAC\u003c/a> provides grants to individual artists, arts nonprofits and the city’s seven cultural centers, in addition to funding public art projects. It also organizes exhibitions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/our-role-impact/programs/sfac-galleries\">two gallery spaces\u003c/a>, one in the War Memorial Veterans Building, the other in City Hall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13875611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/SFAC_The_Capricorn_Chronicles_hires_46_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cece Carpio sifts through the SFAC Galleries’ 50-year history in ‘The Capricorn Chronicles,’ a 2020 gallery show. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--grants-arts\">GFTA\u003c/a> provides general operating support to San Francisco arts nonprofits, including festivals and parades. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--office-economic-and-workforce-development--film-sf\">Film SF\u003c/a> helps filmmakers get shooting permits and fee rebates, and operates one granting opportunity. (Now housed under the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Film SF is clearly the odd man out here.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s announcement said the merger aimed for “simpler grant applications, better-aligned timelines, and ensuring resources continue to reach working artists.” Current leaders of all three agencies (Ralph Remington at the SFAC, Kristen Jacobson at GFTA, and Manijeh Fata at Film SF) will keep their jobs, but are also welcome to apply to the executive director position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many questions remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October and November of 2025, the mayor’s office and the three agencies organized a series of community meetings around the merger, seemingly to answer some of those questions. At the Oct. 28 meeting I attended, consultants asked the audience — mostly former grantees and agency employees — “What concerns you about the merger?” and “What opportunity does the merger offer?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My table could come up with few opportunities. All were worried, especially those who had experienced years of shifting priorities from the SFAC and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908328/frustrating-delays-in-city-funding-affect-over-200-sf-arts-nonprofits\">delays from GFTA\u003c/a>, that this merger would decrease the funding available to arts nonprofits. In a recent email, ABBA summarized the proceedings as leaving hundreds of attendees “with little information, and a sense of uncertainty about the future of these entities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg\" alt=\"white man in suit gestures with one hand at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965110\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024, when he was participating in the Arts Town Hall Mayoral Forum, produced by Arts for a Better Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration was already on rocky ground with the arts community. In June, the SFAC attempted to change the way it distributes money to nonprofits, capping payment advances at 50% and requiring more paperwork in the form of quarterly reports. Nonprofit leaders mobilized to protest the sudden changes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/art-funding-san-francisco-20392389.php\">were granted a temporary reprieve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understandably, much of Lurie’s focus has been on San Francisco’s downtown, for both economic and symbolic reasons. Partnerships with nonprofits and private donors have created programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibrantsf.org/\">Vacant to Vibrant\u003c/a> (which connects local businesses to empty retail spaces), and brought in grants like \u003ca href=\"https://www.svaneff.org/cultureforward\">Culture Forward\u003c/a>, given out by the Svane Family Foundation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Axel points out, people need the arts in every corner of San Francisco — which is why accessible spaces like MCCLA are so important. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This stuff is happening downtown and it’s new and shiny,” she says. “But there’s not a lot of attention about or conversation with the arts organizations around the rest of the city — the ones that are working in communities, the cultural centers that have been there for decades and decades and have an incredible impact in their communities.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s arts organizations, even its most longstanding institutions, are clearly vulnerable right now. In the time it takes to hire an executive director of arts and culture — and for that person to stabilize San Francisco’s arts sector, let alone strengthen it — we may see even more announcements like yesterday’s from MCCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is all to say: hurry up, before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the federal government makes huge cuts to arts funding, local organizations like Balay Kreative are feeling the pressure from Washington, D.C. all the way down to the city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Francisco-based Filipino arts accelerator \u003ca href=\"https://balaykreative.org/stories-content/balay-kreative-is-pressing-pause\">announced a pause on its operations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desi Danganan, executive director of Balay Kreative’s umbrella organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kultivatelabs.org/\">Kultivate Labs\u003c/a>, explained in a post on the organization’s website that the decision was due to funding. Over the past two years, the organization has had to lay off staff and cut their budget by more than $500,000, while from 2024 to 2025, funding dropped by 80%, according to Danganan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13913947']“We can no longer operate as if it’s business as usual,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located on Mission Street in the retail floor level of a city parking garage, where it receives free rent from SFMTA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913947/balay-kreative-soma-pilipinas-filipino-heritage-district\">Balay Kreative provides pop-up studio space\u003c/a> to Filipino American artists, designers and small businesses in the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Heritage District. It has also dispersed grants to individual artists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kultivate Labs will work on repurposing the Balay Kreative space on Mission Street for Republika, an artisan marketplace and art gallery, which is fully funded, Danganan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13972582 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"An audience of people sit, gathered at an open studio at Balay Kreative in San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-2048x1149.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Balay-Open-Studios-27-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An audience of people gather at an open studio at Balay Kreative in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Balay Kreative)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Danganan explained that future funding for Balay Kreative has been jeopardized by the NEA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13971749/nea-arts-funding-canceled-dei-trump\">cancellation of the Challenge America grant\u003c/a>, and its announcement to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13971749/nea-arts-funding-canceled-dei-trump\">no longer support organizations grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion\u003c/a>. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970297/nea-grants-list-of-sf-bay-area-organizations-receiving-grants-in-2025\">latest round of NEA grants\u003c/a>, Balay Kreative received $15,000 to support the Balay Kreative Growth Masterclass Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the phone Danganan called the NEA announcement “salt in the wound,” and illustrative of the federal government’s priorities as a whole. “They want to dismantle anything that is for marginalized communities,” Danganan said of the current administration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13971749']Locally, in San Francisco, he sees a systematic problem in which the city is promoting itself as an arts and culture hub but not providing enough resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were one of those organizations that they highlighted,” Danganan said of the city. He noted that Kultivate Labs has a few “arms,” which allows the organization to generate revenue for programs like Kapwa Gardens and Undiscovered SF. “We were the ones doing really well,” said Danganan, “and we’re still getting a 60% cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grants-for-the-arts\">Grants for the Arts\u003c/a>, funded by a hotel tax, has seen reduced revenue in the wake of the COVID pandemic and a “doom loop” narrative about San Francisco, both of which have kept tourists away from the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13970297']While the city has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967182/svane-family-foundation-culture-forward-grant\">encouraging artists and organizations to move back downtown\u003c/a>, Danganan has seen several recent closures on his organization’s block in SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a restaurant next to us,” he said. “SF Pizza closed. The T-Mobile store on our block closed.” He adds to the list the upcoming closure of department store Bloomingdales, across the street from Balay Kreative, and a recently closed Starbucks at the end of the block (another Starbucks, directly across the street from it, remains open).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they going to have to bring in arts and culture from the outside,” Danganan said, “instead of incubating the arts and culture that we have here?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every year, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgfta.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Grants for the Arts\u003c/a> awards the most sought-after type of nonprofit funding to San Francisco arts organizations: unrestricted general operating support. This kind of money isn’t sexy or splashy, but it helps nonprofits keep the lights on, pay their staff and maintain public programming in one of the most expensive cities in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13907929']Established by the city of San Francisco in 1961 and funded by hotel tax revenue, Grants for the Arts (GFTA) is a much-relied-upon funding source in the city’s arts nonprofit world. Its recipients range from the very large (the San Francisco Symphony, the Exploratorium) to the very small (SF Urban Film Fest, Western Neighborhoods Project). Since its inception, it has distributed nearly $400 million to hundreds of San Francisco arts nonprofits. In 2018, San Francisco voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704700/s-f-voters-say-yes-to-restoring-hotel-tax-funding-for-arts-and-culture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelmingly supported its funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few months, arts administrators across the city have become increasingly distressed by the significant delays they’ve experienced while trying to get the money they were promised—and by the confusing communications they’re getting from the city’s granting organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nobody’s gotten the money yet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The July 2021–June 2022 GFTA grantees include \u003ca href=\"https://sfgfta.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FY22-Allocation-Index-Arts-for-Website.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">226 organizations\u003c/a> who were awarded amounts ranging from $10,000 to $450,000. (Instead of receiving that amount upfront, nonprofits spend against their grant amount and submit paperwork for reimbursement.) KQED reached out to 34 GFTA grantees for this story. Of the 20 nonprofits KQED was able to contact as of publication, five had not yet received grant agreements. Two nonprofits received their agreements in just the past three days. 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The packet of required materials can run to dozens of pages, including a lengthy narrative, a budget snapshot, materials relating to board membership, a recent financial review, multiple tax forms, a list of previous and planned events, brochures and press clippings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, GFTA even teamed up with Intersection for the Arts to offer a four-part workshop and lab series to coach nonprofits through the process and make the grant more accessible to first-time applicants. But if last year’s GFTA watchword was “equity,” this year’s seems to be “TBD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The process has become a big mystery’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seeking information on the status of their current grant cycle, KQED received an auto-reply from GFTA that paints a picture of a severely understaffed organization. The email explains that GFTA is “down to a team of two,” and that two employees from the San Francisco Arts Commission have been brought on to help with the workload. In a bullet-point list of what appear to be frequent email topics, the auto-reply states that the release date for the next grant cycle “has not been identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson from the Office of the City Administrator, which oversees GFTA, provided KQED with a statement about the delays: “Many city departments are experiencing staffing impacts currently as the result of the pandemic. It has and will continue to be a priority to get grant funding and contracts out to all of our city service providers and the Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts staff are working together to do just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GFTA grantees who spoke to KQED say it’s been difficult to get in contact with anyone at the organization to even check on the status of their grant agreements. KQED’s multiple calls to the office went unanswered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts administrators say that in past years, even during the pandemic, the granting process worked fairly smoothly and on schedule; staff were accessible and supportive of the organizations GFTA funded. But they began to notice a string of departures from GFTA after Director Vallie Brown was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892925/vallie-brown-appointed-to-lead-sfs-main-nonprofit-arts-funding-agency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appointed to the position\u003c/a> by Mayor London Breed in February 2021. All four staff members who worked at GFTA prior to Brown’s arrival have since retired or left, and only one new employee has joined. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/VallieBrown.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a blue patterned shirt poses smiling\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13892960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/VallieBrown.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/VallieBrown-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/VallieBrown-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallie Brown was appointed as director of Grants for the Arts by Mayor London Breed. \u003ccite>(Andrew Rettmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps as a result of these staffing changes, current GFTA grantees have been asked to re-submit their information as many as four or five times in recent months, sowing confusion and anxiety in an already strained sector. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Thomas, executive director of San Francisco Center for the Book, remembers when GFTA had a staff of five. “The general feeling is that a lot of really good people have left for whatever reason, that it’s now vastly understaffed in order to be able to do all the good things that they had been doing in the past,” he says. “And that the process has become a big mystery that is really sort of stressing people out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What if I lose my funding?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After months of being asked for and resubmitting their information, GFTA grantees received a Nov. 11 email from Brown. The subject line read “URGENT”: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I appreciate how the lion’s share of the organizations we’re privileged to support have diligently worked to meet the requirements for our FY22 General Operating Support grant. However, many of you continue to have outstanding documentation, which impedes my staff’s (and those who are helping us from the SFAC) ability to generate your contracts. … \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If GFTA does not have all of your documents by Wednesday, November 17, 2021, we cannot guarantee your contract will be executed in a timely manner. The onus is on you to make sure you are in compliance with my department and the City, and I hope you’re able to be responsive to the emails that my staff has been distributing for several weeks.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Even administrators who knew all their materials were in good standing suddenly felt doubt. The mass email, says Gray Area’s Threw, made it unclear who was actually missing information. “Do you have our stuff or not?” he wondered. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just got to be very frustrating where people were thinking they were done, and then all of a sudden, everybody was thrown off,” says Thomas. “What if I can’t prove that I sent it in? And what if I lose my funding?” he remembers asking. “I mean, it’s a major source of funding for a lot of small organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Walsh, executive director of ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco, says they still don’t have a grant agreement despite having submitted all the required documents. “We did receive an email explaining they are working hard to get agreements out so they can begin processing reimbursements,” Walsh wrote via email, emphasizing that GFTA is one of the organization’s primary funders and they are deeply grateful for the support. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced $12.8 million in grants to 227 arts and culture organizations throughout the city on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding comes from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgfta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grants for the Arts\u003c/a> (GFTA) program. Unlike the majority of arts grants, it is designed to cover day-to-day operating expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grantees range from small companies like AfroSolo, which received $10,000 in GFTA funding, to major institutions like the San Francisco Opera, with its $600,000 grant. (A full list of grantees \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/GFTA-FY21-Grants-Final-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be viewed here [PDF]\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the more substantial grants have been dispersed, as usual, to the largest and most entrenched organizations, these organizations are seeing slight losses in funding this year. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s grant fell from $423,190 to $400,00 since 2019; the San Francisco Ballet’s from $428,890 to $400,000; and the San Francisco Opera’s from $680,000 to $600,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, many of the smaller, equity-focused community organizations are seeing an increase in 2020. Examples include the San Francisco Juneteenth Celebration, whose grant grew from $20,000 to $25,000; Project Level, up from $7,500 to $20,000; and the Transgender Film Festival, which was bumped up from $15,000 to $18,750.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though the total pot of money is down around $140,000 over last year, the available funds are being spread more widely, as there are seven more grantees this year. Those include the Clarion Alley Mural Project, Dancing Earth Creation, Art With Elders, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, Kultivate Labs, San Francisco Women Artists, and Youth Art Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Administrator Naomi Kelly says these adjustments are strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a really deep dive into those organizations who tried to look at racial and ethnic equity lines in particular this year, such as the African-American community and the transgender community,” says Kelly. “We wanted to make sure that we are supporting those organizations that have been disproportionately impacted through COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when so many cultural organizations have been forced to close their doors permanently or temporarily, or drastically reduce their operations owing to the coronavirus pandemic, such help from the city is a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only operating grant money that we receive,” says Suzanne Cervantes, founding executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.precitaeyes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Precita Eyes Muralists\u003c/a>, a public art education nonprofit based in the Mission District. The company saw a slight increase in GFTA funding from $45,490 in 2019 to $46,350 this year. “So it makes a big difference,” adds Cervantes. “It helps pay for utilities and rent, as well as administrative costs like marketing and website management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GFTA funding, a portion of which comes from hotel tax revenues, has been in existence since 1961. But starting in the early 2000s, owing to financial issues, the city gradually reduced its arts budget, ultimately repealing the specific allocation altogether in 2013. In 2018, San Francisco residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704700/s-f-voters-say-yes-to-restoring-hotel-tax-funding-for-arts-and-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a ballot measure, Proposition E\u003c/a>, to restore the funding. Since then, 1.5% of the base hotel tax — a 14% tax levied on hotel stays in the city — has been dedicated to supporting arts and culture programs in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But COVID-19 has left San Francisco’s hotel industry in tatters. 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"content": "\u003cp>On paper, San Francisco looks like a great arts town. Several recent studies show that\u003ca href=\"https://www.tbf.org/~/media/TBFOrg/Files/Reports/Arts%20Report_Jan%207%202016.pdf\"> San Francisco spends more per capita on arts programs than almost any other U.S. city\u003c/a>. And a \u003ca href=\"http://heliconcollab.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/NotJustMoney_Full_Report_July2017.pdf\">study\u003c/a> released this summer by the Helicon Foundation encourages cities to look to San Francisco as a model for how to fund small and culturally diverse arts groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s status might be slipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really sort of a beacon,” says Kary Schulman, director of San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the city’s main cultural funding program. She says other city officials used to call and ask, “‘how do you do it?'” Now, she says those calls are more rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/ArtBallotWirtschafter.mp3\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for San Francisco’s arts programs dropped sharply after the recession. Grants for the Arts still hasn’t recovered to pre-recession levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while arts spending overall has increased under the watch of Mayor Ed Lee, advocates worry that the allotment isn’t stable. In 2013, the Board of Supervisors removed a provision that guaranteed a portion of San Francisco’s hotel tax to cultural causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, artists are struggling to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 San Francisco Arts Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Individual-Artists-Space-Need-Analysis_FINAL.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> found hundreds of artists who had recently been displaced, or were facing displacement, from their homes or workspaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZpCpz2GufOtiKydpUCPYpgeWwVSM1AkU”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Klaymoon, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.embodimentproject.org/about/company/\">Embodiment Project\u003c/a>, a street dance theater company, says she rehearses with her dancers five hours every morning, and then goes to teach at four different schools and dance studios to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hustling,” says Klaymoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13809546 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers with Embodiment Project performing at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Embodiment Project received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission this year. \u003ccite>(David Wilson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A failed ballot measure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measure S, a ballot initiative to secure more funding for arts programs, failed in last year’s election. The measure would have guaranteed that a portion of San Francisco’s hotel tax again be committed to arts agencies. The initiative also included funding to address family homelessness. On election day, the measure fell just short of the required two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Moscone, Chief of Civic Engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> and one of the authors of Measure S, looks on the bright side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With 64% of the vote, we really proved that the vast majority of San Franciscans believe in this,” says Moscone. “Whatever we do with that, we have that at our backs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition that tried to pass the measure is now working on new strategies to get more arts funding from the city. In San Francisco, 78% of public money for the arts comes from the city government, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tbf.org/~/media/TBFOrg/Files/Reports/Arts%20Report_Jan%207%202016.pdf\">2016 study\u003c/a> by the research group TDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moscone says one plan of action is to ask supervisors and potential mayoral candidates to develop an arts policy as part of their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are talking to everybody to make sure we’re in the right rooms,” says Moscone. “It’s better to be in the room making the decisions, than to be outside of the room, hearing the decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Moscone at San Francisco Arts Advocacy Day in 2017, which he says gathered a much larger crowd than years before. \u003ccite>(Pax Ahimsa Gethen / funcrunch.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Try again next year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another tactic is to go back to voters. If advocates want to secure guaranteed funding through the hotel tax, state law requires that they pass a ballot initiative like Measure S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big decision is if, and when, to mount such a campaign. Now, thanks to an obscure court ruling, arts advocates may decide to put forward a new ballot initiative as soon as the next election in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the state supreme court \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S234148A.PDF\">ruled \u003c/a>that local tax initiatives placed by citizens are in a different category than those proposed by government bodies. The ruling’s outcome is still uncertain, but it could mean that voters could pass a local tax measure with a simple majority of votes, rather than two-thirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is responsible for interpreting the decision. He has yet to make a public statement on the subject, but arts advocates are fired up about the possibility that a future ballot initiative could pass more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching 50 percent next time “seems like it’s very doable,” says Vinay Patel, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.apiculturalcenter.org/\">Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel says the first step of a new ballot proposition campaign is to find out if the arts community is ready to mobilize again. He says that thanks to Measure S, artists now have a better understanding of the political process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve talked to people in my community about this, and they’re all very excited,” says Patel. And this time, “they already know what it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moscone says the arts coalition is carefully considering the timing of another ballot run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to make the right move,” says Moscone. “You don’t want to just keep going after a ballot just to go after it — you want to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the time it takes to raise money and gather signatures, Moscone says the group needs to decide in the coming weeks whether to run on the June 2018 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If indeed we were to go back to a ballot in June or November of next year,” says Moscone, “it would require immediate and swift action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while arts spending overall has increased under the watch of Mayor Ed Lee, advocates worry that the allotment isn’t stable. In 2013, the Board of Supervisors removed a provision that guaranteed a portion of San Francisco’s hotel tax to cultural causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, artists are struggling to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 San Francisco Arts Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Individual-Artists-Space-Need-Analysis_FINAL.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> found hundreds of artists who had recently been displaced, or were facing displacement, from their homes or workspaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Klaymoon, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.embodimentproject.org/about/company/\">Embodiment Project\u003c/a>, a street dance theater company, says she rehearses with her dancers five hours every morning, and then goes to teach at four different schools and dance studios to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hustling,” says Klaymoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13809546 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/20170914_3_0634_EmbodimentProject-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers with Embodiment Project performing at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Embodiment Project received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission this year. \u003ccite>(David Wilson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A failed ballot measure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measure S, a ballot initiative to secure more funding for arts programs, failed in last year’s election. The measure would have guaranteed that a portion of San Francisco’s hotel tax again be committed to arts agencies. The initiative also included funding to address family homelessness. On election day, the measure fell just short of the required two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Moscone, Chief of Civic Engagement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> and one of the authors of Measure S, looks on the bright side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With 64% of the vote, we really proved that the vast majority of San Franciscans believe in this,” says Moscone. “Whatever we do with that, we have that at our backs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition that tried to pass the measure is now working on new strategies to get more arts funding from the city. In San Francisco, 78% of public money for the arts comes from the city government, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tbf.org/~/media/TBFOrg/Files/Reports/Arts%20Report_Jan%207%202016.pdf\">2016 study\u003c/a> by the research group TDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moscone says one plan of action is to ask supervisors and potential mayoral candidates to develop an arts policy as part of their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are talking to everybody to make sure we’re in the right rooms,” says Moscone. “It’s better to be in the room making the decisions, than to be outside of the room, hearing the decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Jonathan_Moscone_at_SF_Arts_Advocacy_Day_20170321-2838.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Moscone at San Francisco Arts Advocacy Day in 2017, which he says gathered a much larger crowd than years before. \u003ccite>(Pax Ahimsa Gethen / funcrunch.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Try again next year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another tactic is to go back to voters. If advocates want to secure guaranteed funding through the hotel tax, state law requires that they pass a ballot initiative like Measure S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big decision is if, and when, to mount such a campaign. Now, thanks to an obscure court ruling, arts advocates may decide to put forward a new ballot initiative as soon as the next election in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the state supreme court \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S234148A.PDF\">ruled \u003c/a>that local tax initiatives placed by citizens are in a different category than those proposed by government bodies. The ruling’s outcome is still uncertain, but it could mean that voters could pass a local tax measure with a simple majority of votes, rather than two-thirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is responsible for interpreting the decision. He has yet to make a public statement on the subject, but arts advocates are fired up about the possibility that a future ballot initiative could pass more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching 50 percent next time “seems like it’s very doable,” says Vinay Patel, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.apiculturalcenter.org/\">Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel says the first step of a new ballot proposition campaign is to find out if the arts community is ready to mobilize again. He says that thanks to Measure S, artists now have a better understanding of the political process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve talked to people in my community about this, and they’re all very excited,” says Patel. And this time, “they already know what it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moscone says the arts coalition is carefully considering the timing of another ballot run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to make the right move,” says Moscone. “You don’t want to just keep going after a ballot just to go after it — you want to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the time it takes to raise money and gather signatures, Moscone says the group needs to decide in the coming weeks whether to run on the June 2018 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If indeed we were to go back to a ballot in June or November of next year,” says Moscone, “it would require immediate and swift action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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