With pressure on state and national legislatures to trim budgets, our collective investment in the arts through tax expenditures is threatened.

What about it, folks? Is tax-funded art worthwhile? Is it's value to society different from grass-roots art?

And what do you think is the value of art in our modern society?

 I suspect there is a variety of values and perspectives placed on art - let me know yours - it's important, I think, to add this to the national conversation.