Zócalo Public SquareWant the Arts to Make Your City Vibrant? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Want the Arts to Make Your City Vibrant? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/10/15/want-the-arts-to-make-your-city-vibrant/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/10/15/want-the-arts-to-make-your-city-vibrant/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:01:12 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=56121 For towns like Visalia, California, the expression “arts for art’s sake” doesn’t make much sense. In Visalia—as in other emerging arts towns throughout the U.S.—art isn’t just there for its own sake: art is there to energize a community and help people live well. The Central Valley town’s recent “Taste the Arts” festival was a case in point: It brought together a crowd ranging from 20-something native Visalians who have returned home to create visual art to entire families from neighboring towns. Making events like this succeed for artists and the community alike requires more than financial investment. In advance of the Zócalo/James Irvine Foundation event “Can the Arts Revive a Town?”, we asked arts organizers from around California the following question: What does a city have to do–besides give financial support–for the arts to improve civic life?

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]]> For towns like Visalia, California, the expression “arts for art’s sake” doesn’t make much sense. In Visalia—as in other emerging arts towns throughout the U.S.—art isn’t just there for its own sake: art is there to energize a community and help people live well. The Central Valley town’s recent “Taste the Arts” festival was a case in point: It brought together a crowd ranging from 20-something native Visalians who have returned home to create visual art to entire families from neighboring towns. Making events like this succeed for artists and the community alike requires more than financial investment. In advance of the Zócalo/James Irvine Foundation event “Can the Arts Revive a Town?”, we asked arts organizers from around California the following question: What does a city have to do–besides give financial support–for the arts to improve civic life?

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