Imagine
what it would take to build a distinctive arts center in Yellow
Springs, with classes, artist residencies, lectures, exhibitions,
music and theatre, and multi-media productions.
Imagine a place that would complement the other arts venues
in Yellow Springs while providing an acoustically sound performance
space.
Imagine a laboratory where established and emerging artists
could test their ideas, a place that would coalesce and grow artistic
energies of the community and put Yellow Springs back on the cultural
map.
What is your dream for an arts center in Yellow
Springs?
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YS
Center for the Arts in the YS News:
New
Space First Step in Arts Plan
article courtesy Yellow
Springs News
Yellow
Springs Explores Common Arts Vision
article courtesy Yellow
Springs News
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the Community Workshop Summary Presentation
The Yellow Springs Center
for the Arts Steering Committee presented the results of the first
phase of its work on September 30, 2007.
Established in 2006, the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering
Committee was formed from an initial working group to explore the
potential for the development of a Center for the Arts in Yellow
Springs. Working with two consultants from Minneapolis, Tom Borrup
and George Sutton, the group has met with local artists and arts
organizations, educators, business owners, and community leaders,
and held a three-day community workshop in March 2007.
At the public presentation, Steering Committee members, along with
Borrup, author of The Creative Community Builder's Handbook:
How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture,
described how the desired outcome shifted away from building a single
new structure that would serve as a Center for the Arts, toward
a powerful and compelling vision for the future of the entire Yellow
Springs community – a community that is itself a "Center
for Arts and Innovation."
The event took place on Sunday, September 30, 2007, at the First
Presbyterian Church.
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