AMENDMENT SIX: "ART TO THE EDGES"
Problem
How to move art outside the downtown core and Capitol Hill, to develop new audiences, to lower prices, to associate arts with community development, to bring art to those "third places" apart from home and work where the clerks know your name, friends run into each other, and a neighborhood recognizes itself as distinct from all others.
Solutions
To identify and support the de facto community center or centers in each neighborhood. To tie downtown projects, such as the Opera House improvements, to funding these neighborhood arts centers, much as the Library did with its successful bond issue. To fund residencies for noted local artist in community arts schools and Saturday classes, to arrange for art shows or free film series that can travel from neighborhood to neighborhood. To help people learn about art by doing it, to validate everyday arts such as storytelling and weaving. To support warehouse district revitalization through artist housing and work spaces. To encourage local businesses (perhaps with tax advantages) to adopt arts groups in a new form of patronage. (A company such as Adobe, for instance, could support a theater company in Fremont for a year, giving Adobe employees something to go to, building up support in the neighborhood for Adobe, and reflecting the arts interests of the company employees who are encouraged to select the group or gallery to support.)
AMENDMENT SEVEN: "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL"
AMENDMENT EIGHT: "OPEN ARTGATES"
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