Every year for the past several years the amount of money that kickstarter provides to the arts has been over double that of the NEA.  And that's just one site.  Indiegogo, kickstarter, gofundme, and others provide direct financial support to 3 or 4 times as many individual artists as the NEA.  Apocalyptic rhetoric about the end of art in America if the NEA should be cut is not grounded in any fact.  The arts in America have never been more robust.  And this trend will continue regardless of what happens to the NEA.