Thank you very much. It's a pleasure for me to be here in this beautiful Saint Paul Arts and Science Center and to be introduced by the best mayor in the state of Minnesota. Mary Latimer. St. Paul has been my home away from home for the state senator lieutenant governor. And as Governor, when I first became Governor I said that the quality of life in this state was Second To None the people Minnesota knows that it is true. We know that Richard Fuller life is possible here in Minnesota. I believe that the Arts in Minnesota are very important part of that quality of life. One of the major reasons that this is such a good place to live is that we honor art and those who created the Arts in Minnesota benefit, each of us in many ways where there's a painting or Music Theater of poetry Crasher dance. We all have access to Treasures from which we can draw Beauty satisfaction peace of mind and strength the Arts help us to realize who we are to celebrate our individuality. They aren't in the best way and affirmation of ourselves. The Arts are as much a part of our quality of life as our lakes and our parks in our trees. They are one of the reasons the people and business move here from other parts of the country and their families are reluctant to leave here despite endorsements from other places. It seems that almost every important National publication America has written blowing articles in the last few years about the quality of life in Minnesota Time Magazine said that if the American good life has anywhere survived it may be in Minnesota Fortune Magazine noted the Minnesotan civic pride and caring about where they live and virtually every one of these National stories has praised the Arts Community here in Minnesota are museums Orchestra theaters. In other Arts are admired nationally for their excellent. The national Observer said they'd west of the Hudson Minnesota is the cultural capital of the country. Others have called our state the Athens of America. An article on Minneapolis to New York Times commented that besides clean their low crime good planning and considerable Civic decency Minneapolis managers are cultural life of a strength in diversity surpassed only by three or four other American citizens cities in all of them much larger the X call the Walker Art Center. One of the finest modern art museums in America and America in our Saint Paul bass, Minnesota Opera Company, possibly the most dramatic experimental Opera Company in the country. We benefit from the Arts and enrichment summer spirit in our pride, but the Arts also contribute to our state's economy. The Arts are a multimillion-dollar industry with generate many more millions of dollars to other sectors of the economy through salaries and wages purchase of supplies and materials as well as expenditures by people attending Arts programs when they patronize restaurants shops and purchase other services. But what are the Arts there are many things to many people in each of us derive satisfaction from different kinds of art activities. For example, the Arts are all around us the architectures the signs the Landscaping the creativity which goes into design of our clothes the homemade quilts in our homes. We should have product of many of our talented and hardworking mothers and grandmothers. The Arts are Altura Symphony Orchestra theaters in dance companies. They are Potter's and Weavers will put some of their own imagination is Spirit into useful objects in their hands to become inspiring and beautiful as well. The Arts are what's an Indian storytellers writers composers what Carvers in the in the painters of those beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs, they are directors and lighting designers actors musicians and dancers. They're also the banjo and Fiddle players who provide so much joy and beer halls and it's picnics the Arts dinosaur museums and galleries for the finest of the past and present are called. Preserved and shared with a people all over our state. Sometimes we think of the Arts as being only for a certain segment of our society, but think how many people are touched by one or more of these things that I just mentioned how many people are also involved in the Arts as participants in local choirs and theaters as volunteers working for the benefit of art organizations doing their own writing weaving Pottery playing in community orchestras, attending galleries doing their own paintings and dancing the polka. I had to get down on it. And of course consider the hundreds of thousands of Minnesota to enjoy our leading professional art organizations and Rich their Lies by attending performances during radio broadcast visiting museums Galleries and how many Community Arts centers which is spring up around the state and I found this to be true during the bicentennial for just one example of the way the Arts touched so many people we can look at the enormous Talent resources, which we have in our Minnesota poets and writers. We are recognized Nationwide for the Excellence of our ports in schools program. Minnesota porch work is artist in the schools are on the state with students and teachers at all levels inspiring young people in the art of reading and writing creatively. We have seen Minnesota poets during small communities in a group called poetry out loud performing and reading in public programs for clubs at Church's senior citizen homes. And for anyone who's interested during the bicentennial year or Olivia, Minnesota adopted two points, Joe and Nancy Paddock who lived in work there. Artist-in-residence along with the teachers the Farmers and Merchants, what are the results of this day was a book of Olivia history, which The Poets route from tape record a conversation with older residents of Olivia. They were aided by Natasha has to group of citizens will volunteer their efforts of the completion of the project. That book is in the Minnesota Time Capsule and it's a permanent Testament to a town and its people in Minnesota is rich in such artists in all the in all the Arts forms. We are honored for example as having full surprise winner Dominick Argento as one of our resident composers the works and reputations are many other Minnesota artists are known far and wide an example of the Arts can bring together many interest in a community took place recently won the Mississippi River show organised by the Walker Art Center and involve the showing of paintings drawings photographs, beautifully drawn historical Maps models of river craft as well as Music and video art but it also involves a city planning department and others in in Cooperative efforts to take a new look at the aesthetic development of the river. A number of Architects were commissioned to produce games of plans for the possible Redevelopment of the Riverbanks and of Nicollet Island their models, which were displayed as art of the show where works of art in themselves teachers and students got involved in studying the river has passed and its future and they were able to discover how strong enough once the river has had on the creativity of the people living and working near it the show was enjoy not only by the people in the immediate immediate Twin City area, but also by visitors from Oliver, Minnesota and from around the country. The Twin Cities can be expected to be the the the lead in the Arts but are smaller cities are also actively involved bovey, Minnesota small town of 858 citizens as dedicated to research resources for the promotion of the Arts in northern Minnesota by by planning a Living Arts Center, which will cost over $500,000 to construct originally intended as a shrine to Eric enstrom in his famous picture Grace, the people of bovee have expanded the conception of a center to include an outdoor sculpture cord and art gallery work space for artists and a summertime Sawdust Festival. This is imagine if art planning at its best In addition to the programs of mentioned. We are all aware of our other leading art organizations, which are nationally recognized the Saint Paul chamber orchestra is a country's only full-time professional chamber orchestra. It towards the country. It has been in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe under State Department sponsorship. It is scheduled to perform in Germany and in Japan, but also plays for example in Bemidji and Northfield st. Joseph house to rent in the state. It can be heard on public radio throughout the state for those who don't get a chance to attend a concert or Guthrie Theater is recognized as the leading theory of its kind in the country the Minnesota Orchestra and it's magnificent new Orchestra Hall is serving hundreds of thousands of Minnesota through its concerts. They're onto her and threw a Statewide broadcast as a matter of fact last night the record store carry her name and and it's music in Carnegie Hall in New York in a Saturday night's vice-president. Mrs. Mondale will be hearing his performance in the Kennedy Center in Washington and one of the leading museums in the country and 20 spectacular new building is the Minneapolis Institute of Art and in the same complex is located the Children's Theater Company regarded by many as a nation's outstanding theater for young people as a matter of fact when they Today Show produced a bicentennial feature of the Twin Cities a full quarter hours segment was devoted to this unique Cedar these major institutions provide leadership and inspiration, but they are also partners with many other art organizations in our communities around the state consider the orchestra Rochester and blue the theaters of Albert Lea St Cloud in Alexandria, think of the Galleries and museums which are found in more and more places as people use their creativity to restore older buildings only older building spaces such as the old State School in Owatonna the Red River Arts Center in Morehead and the old County Courthouse in Park Rapids, or to build and expand new one such as a Tweed Gallery at UMD Duluth and all of our organization. Find local provide leadership and set standards. We have access to the best in art and encourage us to reach for the best in everything. We do it provides us with the inspiration for individual and Ambitions and aspirations this enormously very Statewide network of art resources has been created almost exclusively through Private Financial support considered in the last 10 years over 100 million dollars has been contributed by a private sources for the construction of our facilities in our state 100 million dollars. These facilities are now in Daly you spell citizens. It'll be hours for future generations to enjoy our art organizations or much of income from Admissions and fees, but large amounts must be contributed these funds come primarily from contributions made by individual citizens businesses and Foundations and other invaluable source of support is a commitment of time and talents of literally of tens of How's the minnesotans will volunteer their efforts in the operations support of art organizations all over the state, but why Minnesota citizens businesses and Foundations have contributed their money and talents for the Arts in the most unparalleled elsewhere State funds have been insignificant for the last 10 years by comparison with other states. For example of a point to Arts with such pride re-appropriate and state monies when he's 13 cents per person. Colorado provides $0.90 New York $2 Utah does better than twice as well as Minnesota in-state appropriation. So we're on top as far as all the national Publications are concerned with the Arts in your drawer in the bottom when it comes to the support the state of Minnesota. So if we are to maintain the Arts as part of our quality of life, we must do much better than we have as we all know the Arts are mostly people the Arts can't be mechanized and they can't be put on a more efficient assembly line basis consequently. They are very hard hit by inflation private contribution in earnings of the Arts in Minnesota are continuing to grow but they cannot meet the entire need of this essential network of organizations programs in artist. We must increase the involvement of the public sector through funding our state Arts board to a level that would help maintain the out the health of Arts Network even with a major increase estate funds the private sector will remain by far. The largest source of support for the Arts and this is as it should be we do not propose at the state support be substituted for existing private support what will happen if the state does not support the Arts. I think the answer is obvious obvious and tragic with Allstate help. The Arts will not be accessible to the average person in the state. It is simple as that. The rich will always have access to the yard. If a seat at a concert cost $50, they'll be some who can afford that if a great museum has to shut its doors 2 or 3 days a week. There are some will be able to arrange their schedules accordingly. But the average family in this state does not have unlimited funds and does not have much flexibility and its work schedule. That's why the state must help the state money is not meant to create orchestras or museums from scratch. Those institutions are already there. What the state can do I must do is to make make those institutions accessible to all Without State money that will not happen what state money it will happen. Just imagine that private contributions had built every Public School in this state not had had built them the text books and hide the teachers and then imagine if the schools were given to the state free and all we're asking me for in return. What's the pay for a small percentage of operating those schools would we have public officials accept such a proposition we jump at it and you know, we would well that's exactly the situation we face with the Arts. The major institutions are ready there. They were built and they are being operated with private money. All we are being asked to do is to help keep their doors open open longer and open to everyone if we don't do that that we aren't serving the people of the state. It's up to us to ensure that every person Minnesota enjoys equal access to the Arts the governor's Commission on the Arts, which was appointed by Governor Anderson over a year ago as complete an extensive and excellent study of Arts. Grams and needs in our state finance entirely by by by private funds it carried out a research program that issued a report that has won the most comprehensive of its kind and stayed among its findings were first it substantially the fact that Minnesota in comparison to virtually every other state has more Private Financial involvement yards does a benefit of all its citizens citizens than anywhere else in the United States second a confirmed that we have some of the country's finest Ark resources in his organization and individual artists and finally predicts that the financial needs of the Arts Network will require substantially larger contributions from both the private and the public sector in years to come. I believe the time has come for the state to begin to assume the sheriff's report for the tremendous Statewide Arts activities. My budget message has recommended a level of 4 million dollars for the state Arts board. I've also recommended State funding of $250,000 for phone. Television Revenue estimates, I recommend it to legislature appropriate $250,000 for public radio public radio and television are important in their own right and a major instrument for the spreading of artistic activities note to the whitest public audience. These are major increases from the current biennium. This increase will begin to bring the state sheriffs support for the Arts to Affair level. I'm convinced that will be well-used. I have great confidence and Leadership with the state Arts board will provide and I have the greatest confidence in the potential of the Arts organization and the artist Minnesota to use sea sponges in ways which in which the lives of us all this budget recommendation is received approval by subcommittees in both the Senate Center financing House Appropriations and legislature to adopt a recommendation. I'm confident they will there still more at the stage can do to encourage the development of the Arts one of the great proliferations of work. One of the greatest relief for Liberation to work of art throughout the nation occurred amazingly enough during the Great Depression. This flowering of Arctic place because the federal government provided work relief funds to writers musicians actors painters. We were awarded by experiencing a golden age of American artistic creativity. I believe the state should embark on a similar kind of program to bring Arts to a public buildings for all future bonding proposals for construction of new state buildings or four major Renovations. I will recommend that 1% of the total construction cost be allocated for the purchasing or commissioning of works of art for those buildings. These paintings and sculptures will make magnificent contributions to his buildings. They won't answer their physical Beauty and how to humanize them. These works of art Willie Moore's case. If you made my Minnesota Artist as such the funds were encouraged the development of local artists and provide an opportunity for them to display and become recognized for their Works. Who knows for example, whether the new State Office Building in Bemidji won't show the first works of the next World Famous Minnesota artist the additional State Appropriations, and this new 1% location program will provide a major increase in public support for the Arts in Minnesota police additional funds accomplish. Our state Arts board has developed several new and exciting approaches the distribution of public funds in preparation to meet these new challenges. I particularly proud of his plan for regional development which called upon the involvement of many citizens in localities all of the state to participate in Making about their own arts program in each of these 13 developmental regions of the state. The Arts board has helped organize Regional Arts task forces and arts consoles these groups planning determine how public funds will be spent for the local Arts activities. This means that a craft show in Park Rapids a community Orchestra and Marshall a theater production Lake in Lake Benton call of dancers at the interpretive Center Chisholm an Indian drum artist in Bemidji a fiddle contest in Crookston and many others like them can be stimulated by Grant's appropriated by the state but decide upon with the knowledge and experience of people who live and work in the communities where these programs originate this concept was developed by the state Arts board with involvement of an advisory committee drawn from each of the regions in this committee will continue to help advise the board in administration and further developments of the program. We're all so proud to see that our regional program has become a national model. Theater Arts start State Arts agencies from all over the country are asking the advice of our state Arts board and four copies of our plan and other use for these funds will be will be to make transfer to promising artist. Why are these grants so important as an analogy? Let me suggest that you consider the library we all use the library the library circulates books who writes the books. They are artists writers. They are the artists without these artists. There would be no books. And without the books. There'd be no knowledge consider museums with the works of painters and sculptors Orchestra. Composer. Do we sometimes take for granted photographs of paintings or music we hear on the radio at a wedding or even in a beer hall on Saturday night. Somebody created those things the artist I believe. I believe that we should make a strong a commitment to our individual creative Artist as we do for example to our medical and scientific researchers. We trust and rooster too long before we see its product because we know that I cannot take place without that trust and support we must do the same with our developing artist. We will support them directly and give them the same trust that they will contribute to or expression in Richmond. This kind of commitment or individual artist has been recommended in the governor's commission report in the state Arts board is ready to carry out such a program. The point is to provide financial support to recognize potential this support enables them to work full-time as an artist and not be required to take a job unrelated to our which puts food on the table, but leaves little time for creativity my appropriation recommendation and a 1% art allocation for public buildings. There be a substantial increase in the support for this program. And that is I mentioned before I mean. A commitment to the Arts means equal access and full opportunity for all of our citizens the gioi the artistic Rich to riches we have and to share with others what they what they do themselves the Arts can brighten the lives of many of our senior citizens. They can enjoy the work of artists and art organizations and they can pass on their own are two others we can find ways for handicapped persons to express themselves with yards into an access to our three sources which have been unavailable to them because the lack of money we can hit up the other straight to all of our citizens at the popular art forms, which come out of the many ethnic Heritage is Rich resources to be strengthened and shared not allowed to fade away is Generations passed on and we turned two things more modern the pork at a wedding Feast The Nutcracker ballet the woodwind quintet the Indian hide painters in a video artist are all part of the network. I've been talking about with all of the other elements which are so closely related. Role is to strengthen support and shirt. We must not be limited in our definition of art. We must know that art is all around us that has many sources and many Expressions. We must know that folk songs can be art as well as concerts that Ukrainian Easter eggs can be as normal and an expression as a painting that the ancient message with Tom Tom's is no less important than the existence of a string quartet and most important. We must know that art is not something past. It is something I'm going the capacity for art is all around us. We will have succeeded permission only when each and every person to stay can assume as a basic right that his or her life will be in for enriched by art art that is Rich and plentiful and close at hand art is not somber and serious. It is a vital source of joy in life it enriches it renews every single one of us. Our goal is for every Minnesotan they speak Personally that joy and enrichment there must be no town. So small. No person so poor that art can be denied song and beauty and drama words and music and design must be as much a part of our daily environment as our natural right is trees and sky and clean water artist division of our society. It is a vision of beauty of peace and harmony with nature and was found with human beings. We must have sure that this vision and it's uplifting of the human spirit is available to every Minnesota. I asked for your help and your support for the Arts through our efforts. Minnesota will be continued to be known as one of the great artistic Centers of America. Thank you. Minnesota Governor Rudy perpich delivering his state of the article yet. About 250 to 300 persons at the end call Ramsey Arts and Science Center applauding as the governor walks out 2 going to be on of no question and answer session will follow or have them question and answer session previous providing interest speech last thing about 20 to 25 minutes for the governor made three major points the encourage the Minnesota Legislature to adopt his 1977-78 budget recommendation of four million dollars for the state Arts board that will include grants for artists of recognize potential. The governor said the state must begin to assume it's Sheriff support for Statewide Arts activities second major Point made in his speech this afternoon in St. Paul having a recommended that 1% of the total construction costs of new state buildings or major Renovations the alligator for the purchase for for the commission of works of art for those building and finally the governor recommended an increase in the involvement of the public sector in the Arts funding of the state Arts board will ever That would help maintain help of the state's part Network Governor pointed out that Minnesota provides about $0.13 per person for sport of the Arts in the state. Noting that many other states in the union provide much more support technical direction for this broadcast with violin cruise and Richard Nelson, and the preceding live broadcast was made possible in part with financial assistance of Minneapolis Star. 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