Arts & Sciences

Arts and sciences are combined into one domain on purpose. From the perspective of how government interfaces with each, they're remarkably parallel: both depend heavily on grant infrastructure (NEA/NEH on the arts side, NSF/NIH on the sciences), both face recurring "is this worth taxpayer money" challenges, both rely on public universities and public broadcasting analogues for the social infrastructure that makes the work possible, and both produce non-market goods that markets predictably underprovide. The shared frame is *publicly-supported knowledge and creative work*, and the analytical work in this domain is about how that shared frame holds up in PA-3 — research universities in the district, arts organizations, public libraries (which cut across this and several other domains), the science and arts ecosystems that exist outside the institutions.