Item 5. Presentation by community members on their experience with Cultural Arts funding — original pdf

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City of austin’s Cultural arts funding -------------------------------- Briefing by community artists on their experience with the city’s fuding programs Advisory Board Sponsors: Navarro, Zamarripa-Saenz Presenters: Dr. Róen Salinas | Aztlan Dance Company Luis Ordaz Gutiérrez | ProyectoTEATRO Hector Ordaz Gutiérrez | ProyectoTEATRO Raquel Rivera | SUREM & Roy Lozano’s Ballet Folklórico Brief history 40+ years of cultural arts funding • HOT Tax funding source • Long standing cultural contractors include all LARP artists to date • Institutionalized and systemic underfunding of non-white artists since programs were rolled out in the late 70s / early 80s. Issues are rooted in inequitable funding eligibility qualifications, budget matrices that favor white socioeconomic levels, and language accessibility barriers for non-english speaking artists. 1 2020: Funding distribution for Latino arts published 40+ years inequitable distribution All City of Austin cultural arts funding programs are frozen per 3rd party consultant recommendation. Research recommends: • More program outreach and accessibility communities. • Equal representation in the distribution of the cultural art funding • Priority to vulnerable communities that had been historically left out • Ability to apply in other languages other than english for BIPOC 2015-2021: Latino community only receives 9% of entire city funding. Pause, redesigning, and reset 2020 and beyond New Funding levels are proposed as: • Thrive for large organizations • Elevate for medium organizations • Nexus for small organizations or emerging artists With new funding matrices, less challenging applications, fewer eligibility requirements and… The opportunity to apply in 7 languages other than english! Latino artist can finally apply in Spanish! 3 Issues and challenges for spanish-speakers The start of a series of language accessibility issues Inaugural 2023 reset launch of new programs: • Negligent Translation errors; deadline to allow for Spanish speakers to receive application support. No contracts in spanish available. City moves to extend 2024 2nd Cycle of New Fudning programs: • Negligent Translation errors, community, poor attempts at supporting spanish speakers. Hispanic Quality of LIfe makes recommendation → No outreach to Latino 2025 3rd Cycle of New Fudning programs: • Negligent Translation errors, confusing eligibility process, lack of spanish language replies, still no contracts in spanish. 4 5 Community ask Moving forward 1. Appropriate outreach to Latino community regarding funding programs 2. Human translations of all documents in the process 3. Oversight of spanish-language process in its entirety 4. Contracts in Spanish 5. Metrics and data regarding distribution amounts of cultural funding by ethnicity.