Kansas has rejoined the other 49 states in the union in funding the arts. That’s good news for Iola —and for the dozens of other Kansas communities, large and small, that have used state and national funds to supplement their arts budgets.
When Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission last year, it cost the state about $1.3 million in federal arts funding. A small, but significant, part of that would have come to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center to pay part of the cost of productions staged there.
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