I started researching CT Office of the Arts administration of Art grants and awards. I began by looking at FY26 Art Grant Recipients that can be found at: https://portal.ct.gov/decdartsportal/-/media/decd/arts_culture/supporting-arts/fy26-sap-grants.pdf?rev=d28740ff103e457d962eb18b9080adf0&hash=29193B075BDA2056D73E9B7D58F83AC0
The heading claims
that $950,000 has been awarded to 233 recipients.
I
decided to categorize how much each of the eight counties in CT
received to see if there was a pattern. In doing so, based strictly
on the information documented on the spreadsheet, I could only locate
$750,642 worth of grants – roughly a $200,000 shortfall.
If
one were to assume each of the eight counties got an equal share of
that $750k, the percentage would be 12% or approx.
$94K/county.
Here’s how it actually breaks out based on
the ~$750K grand total:
Litchfield got 8%
Fairfield got 44%
Tolland got 0.8%
Windham got 1.7%
New Haven got 25.5%
Hartford got 26.6%
Middlesex got 6%
New London got
10%
So.
What happened to the missing $200K?
Why
are Eastern CT taxpayers subsidizing wealthy counties who can well
afford to pay for their own programs while counties whose cultural
needs are many are ignored. If artists are looking for an erased and
marginalized group to whine about look no further than Tolland and
Windham counties.
see: https://artscrub.blogspot.com/2026/03/chro-ct-office-of-arts-complaint.html
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