Great Plains Theatre Commons

To our local and national communities:

National Endowment for the Arts Withdraws Committed Funding

The Great Plains Theatre Commons was among multiple Omaha-area nonprofits who received an email on Friday, May 2nd, announcing the withdrawal of previously approved funding from the National Arts Endowment.

GPTC Artistic Director Kevin Lawler states:

“The National Endowment for the Arts withdrawal of funding to arts organizations across the country is devastating on many levels for the organizations affected and the communities they serve, but it’s also another step in our deepening national crisis.

Over two decades of sharing new stories with the world, the GPTC has learned, over and over again, that the health of a community is determined, in large part, by the depth and honesty of the stories that we are able to share with each other.

Because we are all inexorably connected, the actions against refugees, immigrants, the poor, students, journalists, artists, scientists, federal workers, non-profits, libraries, universities, the LGBTQIA community, the press, museums, and the arts, among others, are attacks against everyone in our country.

No matter what the Trump administration does to us, we will continue to support storytellers and share stories because that is the work that we love and it’s our way to be of service.”

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