Anne Craig, executive director of the Greenwood Arts Council since 1997, talks about the current landscape in the following November 2009 Q & A interview with S.C. Arts Commission liaison Susan DuPlessis.Q: What’s your budget looking like this year compared to FY09?
Anne: We started this fiscal year by cutting our budget $65,000 (FY09 expenses were $240,000; this year we’ve budgeted for $185,000 in expenses).
Q: Wow. That’s a 37% decrease.
Anne: Yes, we’re anticipating a lean year; we’ve cut one full time position (leaving a total staff of two) but we’ve hardly cut any programming. We’re still trying to do it all.
