He’s known as the Terminator but an artist? Who knew? Today Governor Schwarzenegger attended the California Arts Council conference at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento where the theme was “The Future – What’s Next? While the conference focused on the challenges in funding art programs in schools, the Governor pledged that more money would be made available for the arts in the future. He also added, “I promise you – I’ll be back.”
Schwarzenegger was introduced by his sister in-law CAC Vice Chair Malissa Feruzzi Shriver as a patron of the arts as well as an artist himself and a small slide show was presented on the Governor’s paintings of flowers, dolphins and cows. Citing his passion for the arts, the Schwarzenegger praised the efforts of the CAC for their creative ways of raising funds such as the license plates designed by Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebald that has raised $3 million dollars. Though California is already the lowest of all 50 states in per capita spending for the arts, the Governor concluded his remarks by promising to “fixed the state budgeting process to that cuts in the arts funding would not have to be made…”
Link: http://www.sacbee.com/capolitics/story/761358.html
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