Ever since Mapplethorpe and Serrano put the National Endowment for the Arts into the spotlight, arts advocates have come to Washington, D.C., on Arts Advocacy Day to try to convince memebers of Congress to continue federal funding of the arts and humanities. But when Republicans took over Congress, the more conservative members came to an informal agreement with the leadership that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts would be reduced over two years and zeroed out in the third. This is the third year...so this year's advocates have their work cut out for them. NPR's Dean Olsher reports.
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