Helmuth Lehmann | Survey Response
Helmuth Lehmann, Independent
Congress, NV-02
Did you have access to or participate in arts and cultural activities when you were growing up?
Music, Visual Arts
Comments:
"My father was a dress designer/ patterns/ artistic designs"
What arts and cultural activities have you personally attended in the past 12 months?
Music, Visual Arts, Theatre
Comments:
"I have authored two books; one on leadership in organizations 1998, the other on the decline of America's economy and social fabric, out 9/2011"
If you have children, are they personally engaged in arts and cultural activities, in school or after school?
Music, Dance
Comments:
"They are now out of school; 25 and 20"
The Arts and Economic Diversification
Congress should provide federal funding that supports our nation’s unique entrepreneurial spirit to cultivate a creative workforce that stimulate creative enterprises, job growth, a stronger tax base and an improved quality of life for our residents.
Agree
The Value of Public Policies and Funding for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts’ funding to state arts agencies is extremely important to the vitality and livability of our country’s communities and economy.
Agree
The Value of Federal/State Partnership Funding
Given the substantial budget reduction in NEA funding in FY11, would you support a level-funding budget approach for the NEA in FY2012 in order to support the arts and culture nonprofit businesses throughout the nation, and in particular to recognize and support the important role the arts and culture play in Nevada’s economy and quality of life?
Support
The Value of Arts Education
Would you oppose any effort to terminate arts education as currently proposed in H.R. 1891 ("Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act"), and work to keep an arts education grant program authorized at the U.S. Department of Education?
Oppose
Comments:
“Proven fact that arts increase a student's engagement with the world around him/her and also improves axon and neuro transmission and acquisition of knowledge.”
The Congressional Arts Caucus
As a member of the House of Representatives, would you be willing to join the Congressional Arts Caucus?
Yes
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