In Wealthy Orange County, Arts Groups Are Just Not Used To Recession

“Buoyed by its diversified economy and wealth, O.C. has powered through past recessions relatively damage-free. Not this time.” The financial crisis facing the arts institutions in Orange County “holds a mirror to our singular way of doing things: our maverick entrepreneurial spirit has been both a strength and a weakness for the arts in O.C. … This time around, munificent millionaires and their splashy gifts of money might not be the answer.”