Without the messy nuisance of public debate, Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission and transferring its duties to the Kansas Historical Society. Gov. Brownback also proposed creation of a private, non-profit corporation that will raise money for the arts in competition with all the other fund- raisers in the forest.
Gov. Brownback couldn’t do Iola and its Bowlus Fine Arts Center more grievous damage — short of dropping a bomb on Madison at Sycamore Street.
WHAT WOULD abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission do to Kansas?…
