my name is kevin seaman, i am an artist, arts administrator, and former grant maker. i've participated in san francisco's cultural landscape for over a decade. over that time i've come to realize how essential cultural equity funding is to san francisco's vibrant arts landscape. as an artist and a recent recipient of the subpoena arts commission cultural equity grants individual artists commission, i applaud the accessibility and investment of this program and established mid career and emerging artists. as it is one of the city's only opportunities that directly funds individual artists. as a grant writer i have assisted small and midsize arts organizations to obtain grants to create new and dynamic work representing a spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation rarely heard in symphony halls and opera houses. the large arts organizations you have heard today receive 1% or less of their annual budgets from grants for the arts annual operating grants, a tiny fraction of their multi-million dollar budgets. i can't help but wonder what those fund