Last night the ArtSwirl’s Ad Hoc Task Force on the Big Art Town Plan presented their final report. I was glad to see a variety of visual arts represented in the plan. I found the Art House and Art Hotel ideas to be quite interesting. I guess that we’ll have places for both resident andContinue reading “Art Town Plan Completed”
Category Archives: Art Town
Art Centers, Art Groups, and Art Towns
For the August Downtown Forum, as an introduction to the ArtSwirl festival (10 Days of the Arts…August 4th – 14th), the NDDC will be hosting John Potter, Executive Director of the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin. The $7 million facility was built and funded by the William H. Phipps Foundation, area individuals,Continue reading “Art Centers, Art Groups, and Art Towns”
Community Resources and the Pursuit of the Art Town
Some of you may have noticed my column in the Wednesday July 6, Northfield News. A few of you may have actually read it. In the column, I reported that there was a group of people proposing to use some of the communty’s resources to create and fund a new position, commission another study andContinue reading “Community Resources and the Pursuit of the Art Town”
Audio and video interview: Making Northfield an Art Town
Here’s a 6-minute MP3 of my “Art Town” interview with Ross Currier that I originally posted to Northfield.org. And here’s a lightly edited video (4 minutes) of the same interview.
Making Northfield an Art Town
Four or five years ago, a group of people gathered together in pursuit of a shared goal: to make Northfield into an Art Town. Some months later, they realized that at least two other organizations, the Northfield Arts Guild (NAG) and the NDDC, shared some of the same goals. The groups got together and haveContinue reading “Making Northfield an Art Town”