Jane Alexander

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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