The phrase "arts benefactor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who supports or contributes to the arts, typically through financial donations or sponsorships.
Example: "The gallery was able to host the exhibition thanks to the generous support of an arts benefactor who believed in the importance of promoting local artists."
Alternatives: "arts patron" or "cultural benefactor".
Mr. Gergiev has attracted support from corporations and private patrons, the most generous of whom is the Cuban-American billionaire arts benefactor Alberto Vilar.
The plot centers on Toby Kramer, an aspiring filmmaker, who is presented with a generous grant by Zenna Briggs, an arts benefactor, to finance his documentary about the disappearance of Simon Vines, a lonely computer programmer.
Others such as Bryce Dessner, the guitarist with The National, an American rock band have a larger vision that results in the establishment of a completely new festival.Mr Dessner began satisfying his urge ten years ago, after a series of discussions with Murray Sinclaire, an arts benefactor in his home town of Cincinnati.
Arts benefactor, environmentalist.
A number of leading arts benefactors have argued that philanthropy cannot fill the hole that the threatened 25 to 40 per cent cuts under the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review will leave if they are pushed through later this summer.
In December, a fake news release was sent out by a group claiming to be Koch Industries, the oil processing company owned by Charles and David Koch, the Republican donors, arts benefactors and global warming skeptics.
Kress, who became one of the great art benefactors of the twentieth century, willingly took the word of other experts, and, indeed, these experts seem to have been right.
She and her husband, Jean de Menil (who later changed his name to John), arrived in Houston in the 1940s and became its foremost art benefactors: funding the Rothko Chapel, Barnett Newman's "Broken Obelisk," the Byzantine Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and the Menil Collection museum--as well as countless exhibitions, seminars, lectures, and educational programs.
A lifetime patron of the arts and benefactor to other notable causes.
Sigtrygg was also, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "a patron of the arts, a benefactor of the church, and an economic innovator".
Mr Anschutz is, according to his PR people, an intensely private, almost reclusive, family man who jogs and collects art, a benefactor to many charitable causes and the largest owner of sports clubs in the world, including the Los Angeles Kings ice hockey and Los Angeles Lakers basketball teams as well as the London Knights ice hockey outfit.
