According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Georgia is ranked last in the country for money appropriated to arts agencies by state legislatures, with only $0.14 spent per capita in 2022. Just across the border, South Carolina is ranked second, spending $8.77 per capita. Florida, Alabama and Tennessee all spend nearly 10 times what Georgia does on the arts.
Writing in an article in the Savannah Morning News, Kristofer Moore says that “ Savannah is lucky in that it does spend a fair amount to support the arts, but more certainly could be done.”
