The Arts Meander, a free self-guided tour of artist studios featuring 45 local artists from the Upper Minnesota River Valley, is all set for October 5-7, 2007. The Web site offers a pretty good model for doing this in your community. Such a tour provides a little income to the artists and a ton of good will. Citizens having positive exchanges with artists in their own (or any) environment-- that's a good thing. This Arts Meander Web site has a full page list of "sponsors," including everybody from government agencies and cultural alliances to restaurants and casinos. That's how far the good will has already spread in upper Minnesota.

This kind of organizing is a heavy load, but gives back a joyous reward. The job isn't finished, however -- and this is true of all community arts programs -- if nobody gets to know about it. Here's a plea to (everybody to go that extra mile and get your project up on the Web.

Those of you who are organizing artist studio tours for the general public, let us know about them and we will be glad to put them in the CAN calendar. But we can only do so if your project appears on the Web somewhere, so we can send our readers there for more information.

(Thanks to the Green Routes Newsletter for this link.)

Arts Meander

   

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