Donors reportedly received support from the University of Florida Museum after a controversial transfer

Donors reportedly canceled support from the John and Mabel Linling Museum of Art from Florida State University to the John and Mabel Linling Museum of Art earlier this year or have cut off contact.
As ABC’s Sarasota affiliate describes, three donors reconsidered the plan’s gifts, totaling more than $750,000, or “take over.” Museum supporters and staff expressed concern that the new Florida college is smaller and is an inappropriate butler on both operational and conceptual levels.

The new Florida college is a small liberal arts college in Sarasota that builds a donor base with a reputation for its progressive approach to education. This reputation has changed dramatically since DeSantis reorganized secondary and higher arts and cultural education with conservative values priorities.
In 2023, Desantis formed many political allies to the new university board and helped appoint former Republican Speaker Richard Corcoran as president. The college has since canceled its gender studies program and incorporated its featured spokesman Tom Homan as a prominent advocate for Trump’s border overhaul.
Also in 2023, a Michigan college ended its relationship with the Florida charter school, which had an inappropriate picture of her Renaissance David after her parents complained about her Renaissance art syllabus being forced to resign. Charter schools follow the “classical education curriculum model,” a teaching model that emphasizes the “centrality of Western traditions” and is becoming increasingly popular among Florida primary schools. this Tampa Bay Times The model was described in a stern report published in a controversy to comply with the “historical focus of white, western European and Jewish-Christian Foundation.”
In 2024, DeSantis rejected more than $32 million in arts and cultural grants from Florida’s fiscal 2025 budget, a move that has attracted criticism from local museum leadership. The Tampa Museum of Art lost about $500,000 in state funds due to vetos, marking a “disappointing and confusing huge” that museum director Michael Tomor called it in an interview Tampa Bay Times. The veto power is also condemned by leaders of arts and advocacy organizations [Florida’s] Grant program. ”