(a) To stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of the performing and fine arts and public interest and participa- tion therein.

(b) To help develop and sustain existing independent institutions of the arts by providing technical assistance in strengthening administrative and fund-raising techniques.

(c) To provide for the exhibition of art works in public buildings; to administer the art bank purchases and to make policies therefor.

(d) To bring highest quality in arts to the Territory, to promote the opportunity for people to experience, enjoy and profit from the arts and humanities.

(e) To join or contract with private patrons, individual artists and ensembles and with institutions, local sponsoring organizations and professional organizations.

(f) To enter into contracts to provide grants, loans or advances to individuals, organizations or institutions — public or private — engaged in artistic, humanistic and cultural pro- grams.

(g) To accept gifts, contributions and bequest of funds or artifacts and property.

(h) To serve as sole government agency for administering any state plan of the National Endowment for the Arts and/or Humanities.

(i) To make applications for federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities or to any office or agency of the United States for participation in or receipt of aid from federal programs.

(j) To receive requests for grants and to make grants to institutions, individuals and agencies of government in further- ance of the arts and humanities.

(k) To administer and disburse funds.

(l) To expend appropriations made by the Legislature for arts and humanities programs.

(m) To serve and act as the official lead agency for planning and administering Guam’s participation and representation at the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture.

SOURCE: GC § 65001. Subsection (m) added by P.L. 35-060:2 (Jan. 2,
2020).