In Wyoming, “[t]he job of preserving jobs has fallen in part to a small state agency that normally specializes in promoting the arts: The Wyoming Arts Council. The council has applied for $290,000 in National Endowment for the Arts funding through the federal stimulus act. … Already the Wyoming Arts Council receives more NEA funding per capita than any other statewide arts agency,” amounting to “about $1.30 for each man, woman and child in Wyoming.”