One of the tricks of obfuscating Federal and State Arts Money laundering is a sleight of hand accounting trick. The Connecticut Office of the Arts and the Department of Economic and Community Development Have, in practice, created an entitlement community category of arts funding It's uniquely insulated from accountability and its tightly coupled to and administrated by insiders and wannabe socialite engineers.
A recent example of this is the acquisition of three sculptures for the Naugatuck Valley campus. It's called Los Companeros by Beverly Precious and is located at the end of a walkway in the Poet's Circle at CT State, Naugatuck Valley Campus.
The COA email claims:
It's hard to imagine just how spending a fairly substantial sum of money purchasing a sculpture from an out-of-state artist whose business produced the pieces that were then shipped long distance to the Connecticut campus.
Was it the fact that this artist checked all the checkboxes required to qualify as a Woke-fully correct money sink?
- A woman -gasp-
- Her name sounds like a Casino/Native American Indian
- The sculpture is a thinly veiled advocacy of illegal immigration (nod/wink)
Nor is this the only Beverly Precious sculpture on that campus.
Clearly, equally capable and talented CT sculptors and creators never had an opportunity to allow their work to be considered for these State Sponsored (in other words CT taxpayer funded) acquisitions.
Furthermore, the COA who are responsible for acquiring Art *produced by* Ct artists FOR the Connecticut Collection used the money instead on the COA buyer's club preference of Democratic Party agenda messaging.
This is an abuse of public funds that should and must remain politically neutral for the expressed advocacy and enrichment of political party sponsorship
COA needs a personnel housecleaning sooner than later.
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