Arts & Science Council cuts staff

Charlotte’s Arts & Science Council has laid off eight employees — 31 percent of its staff. The job cuts follow the organization’s disclosure last week that its annual fund drive had fallen 37 percent below the goal of $11.2 million. This year’s drive raised $7 million. Last year, the drive had generated $11.2 million. Falling short all but guarantees smaller grants for the individual arts groups that rely, in part, on ASC funding to run their organizations. The ASC board is expected to make decisions in June about the grants the organization will make in fiscal 2010, which starts July 1. “We expected this was going to be tough sledding,” Lee Keesler, ASC…

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