Baltimore mayor’s $3.6M in arts funding earns clapback and applause

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has announced the distribution of $3.6 million in pandemic relief funds to more than two dozen arts groups in the city, with a special emphasis on those that serve racial minorities and that historically have been under-represented. “Public dollars have too often gone to just the big names and big players in town,” Scott said in an April 16 news release about the Diversity in Arts grants funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).