Arts in Suburban Communities

The Need for Strategic Partnership

Moderator: Rip Rapson, The McKnight Foundation
Panelists: Ta-coumba Aiken, artist and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council board member; David Allen, Director of Public Art, Metro Transit; Jack Becker, FORECAST Public Artworks; and Bill Morrish, Design Center for American Urban Landscape at the University of Minnesota

Working in first-ring suburbs requires a method of thinking about arts that is more about broad-based, long-term partnerships than it is about artistic collaborations, in order to deal with the new urban/suburban structure. What kinds of partnerships can we do in the future?

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