The nonprofit Flushing Town Hall has for decades put on cultural events aimed at appealing to the highly diverse Queens neighborhood, receiving regular support for its programming from the National Endowment for the Arts. Take, for example, a “Global Mash Up” series, which brings artists with different music styles from different cultures together for a jam session. That series, which kicks off this month, was funded in part with a $25,000 grant from the NEA. Additional funds for the series, said Ellen Kodadek, executive...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 26, 2017 12:33 UTC