Urban Art Rangers -

Urban Art Ranger Information Flyer

by Joanna Spitzner
- a project of the Public Arts Task Force -

I thought I'd post this because I think it's such a great idea. One of the things that I'm constantly faced with at my job is almost exactly the same as regards getting out there and communicating with a diverse community. While my own efforts may be more like preaching to the choir, this sort of community-based patrol is one of the missing pieces of the arts & culture puzzle. Especially so as it relates to community needs, identifying community assets, dialog, education and building bridges of trust and respect. Speaking of trust and respect, my hats off to the 40Below Public Arts Task Force collectively and to Joanna Spitzner specifically for taking up this initiative. For anyone who's involved with the responsibility of keeping up with redesigning the funding and support infrastructure of the arts - dry-white-toast reads of reports, strengths/weaknesses assessment, re-structuring philosophies and such like - this sort of grass roots working model is exactly the stuff that your average egghead management type never seems to be able to translate. Okay, so now that I've made the $20-a-word speech aimed at that particular sub-set of geek speak and buzz word commandos, what I really want is a badge and a uniform! :D