Arts and Culture Overview
NCSL's Arts and Culture Program tracks current and emerging issues, provides research,
answers information requests, and helps legislators and their staffs understand the
relationship of arts and culture to other policy issues such as economic development,
tourism, arts education, historic preservation and land use planning. NCSL recently
convened a cultural policy working group to
address various cultural policy issues.
Historic Preservation and Development
tax incentives have been popular for some time and many states are looking toward
preservation as a means of strengthening the economic vitality of communities.
Preservationists are working with legislators to preserve historic buildings and to
control urban sprawl through growth management, transportation and scenic byway laws.
NCSL has an online database of state
historic preservation laws.
NCSL Labor and Economic Development Committee
is staffed by Diana Hinton Noel and Jeremy Meadows in the Washington, D.C. office and
Jeanne Mejeur in the Denver office. You may contact them at
arts-info@ncsl.org or
(202) 624-5400 for the DC office and (303) 364-7700 for the Denver office.
NCSL's Cultural Policy Project is one
outcome of a study launched in 2001 by the national culture program of The Pew Charitable
Trusts which aims to increase the amount and quality of policy-relevant information about
American arts and culture and to make such information widely accessible. The NCSL Cultural
Policy Working Group provides a forum for state policymakers to discuss the issues related
to moving such an agenda forward.
Arts and Historic Preservation
issues are covered by Lisa Houlihan in the Denver office. You may contact her at arts-info@ncsl.org or (303) 364-7700.
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