State support for the arts in California is low, after recent budget cuts. How low? “To better understand how low public support has sunk, consider that Canadians spend an annual $145 per capita to fund the arts; Germans, $85; New Yorkers, $2.75; Mississippians, $1.31; Californians, 3 cents. ‘That’s gum balls,’ says Barry Hessenius, director of the council. Three gum balls a year.”