(a) To take such steps as may be deemed necessary and appropriate to stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of the performing and creative arts, and to foster public interest in and support of the arts in our State.

(b) To make such surveys as may be deemed advisable to public and private institutions within the State engaged in the performing and creative arts, and to make recommendations for appropriate action to enlarge the State’s resources in the performing and creative arts.

(c) To encourage and assist freedom of expression in the performing and creative arts.

(d) To assist in complementing the design of public buildings in this State in accordance with the provisions of the “Public Buildings Arts Inclusion Act.”

For the purposes of this act, the term “performing and creative arts” shall include, but not be limited to, music, theater, dance, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, film art, handicrafts, graphic arts and design.

L.1966, c. 214, s. 2. Amended by L.1978, c. 117, s. 6.