"There should be an effort outside the arts to explain why the arts should be part of everyone's lives and intellect," said former NEA Chair Frank Hodsoll.
However, the panelists did not agree when it came to the role of the organization in promoting particular types of art.
Ivey said that the NEA should fund popular culture and for-profit arts as well as traditional "high culture."
"The arbitrary category of good art and bad art will not work in this society," Ivey said.
Former Chair John E. Frohnmayer, on the other hand, said the NEA should only fund art forms that might not otherwise survive.
"The Endowment is a counter-market force," Frohnmayer said. "We're there to support [art] because no one else is there to support it."
Panelists also differed on the question of whether the NEA should fund controversial art that might offend particular cultural or religious groups.
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