Any content-based considerations that may be taken into account in the grant-making process are a consequence of the nature of arts funding.

Such projects are typically neither subject to Congressional hearings nor competitively awarded through the federal bureaucracy's grant-making process.

But some members of Congress are demanding more oversight over the agency's grant-making process.

My role is not to be a cultural tastemaker but, as an administrator, to make sure that the grant-making process is as fair as it can be.

That action, says Judith Tannenbaum, the director of the Institute for Contemporary Art, undercuts the endowment's grant-making process.

U.S.C. 954(d)(1) merely adds factors to the grant-making process.

In 1978, the Foundation began a formal grant-making process, and since that time, has disbursed a total of 145 million dollars.

Mr. Agresto is also on the 12-member Presidential commission reviewing the grant-making process of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Both Sides Gave During negotiations, Mr. Williams moved from his position that there should be virtually no restrictions on the grant-making process.

This victory for freedom of expression will however have no effect on the grant-making process at the NEA.