From the GazetteIowa slipped one spot among state rankings in fiscal 2007 for investing in the arts, rating 45th among 50 state art agencies with per-capita investments of 41 cents compared to the national average of $1.07 per person, a state official said Monday.
Cyndi Pederson, director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, said Iowa continued to slip in data compiled by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies -- a membership organization of the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies.
Hawaii ranked tops nationally with a $4.84 per-capita investment in the arts.
"It's frustrating to be near the bottom in national rankings," Pederson said. "We would like to support the arts in Iowa more broadly but we are limited by the amount of resources available to us." More
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