Cuts to Arts & Adapting Business Strategy

Gifted Underachievers · Apr 3, 2026 · 27m

Trump and Republicans decimated funding for the arts in the US with immediate impacts to creatives. This is a loss not just to artists and other creatives but society as a whole. We are a not a better country for this.

And yet, creatives are doing what we do best: Adapt.

There are signs that a range of creative businesses are adapting their business strategies and planning to adjust to this loss of funding and, perhaps, make these businesses stronger in the long run. This could, too, lead to a stronger arts and creative economy.

Let’s do more than hope. Let’s be part of the solution…