Jonah Nink Interviewed A GSA Whistleblower About Trump’s Cuts To Public Arts

For Chicago Reader, Jonah Nink interviewed a GSA whistleblower about the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal public arts preservation services. In the piece, Nink details how these cuts in the budget are changing the scope of these organizations’ work. Nink also interviewed Preservation Chicago executive director Ward Miller. 

Nink writes, “Public art won’t impact people’s retirement, it won’t lower grocery prices. It can’t give people free health care or clean the pollution from the atmosphere. But to preservation advocates like Miller, its quiet erasure, maliciously deliberate or just from bullish oversight, is a five-alarm bell.”