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GUY DE TERRE: So what has the West End Art Council been up to recently, are you promoting or involved in any. new or on-going projects that you would like to tell our readers about? WEST END ART COUNCIL: Guy it is funny you should ask.
We at, and with, the Council have always tried to lay the ground work for artists in the community to leave their impression on those who may just be passing through Currently we are working on such a project and hopefully it will also be a benchmark for some of the more prominent neighbors of our community. GDT: And what type of art work would be involved in this moving project? Is there a possibility of community involvement? WEAC: The art work will span the creativity of the participants.
We will ask to be the cement between the community and the artists.
We wish in no way to curb the creativity or to glaze over the importance of community involvement. GDT: How is the Council going to keep the creators in the groove and give them different opportunities to create? That is without this project seeming like a crock? WEAC: We believe that there is enough support in the community for the community as a whole to be the grout in this project.
We will take a workshop to neighborhood schools to involve artistically directed youngsters.
We also hope to have an open opportunity for anyone interested, at the Loop in Motion festival.
But not to just lath this project with non-professional artist involvement, we are in the process of putting together, with the aid of Arts in Transit and the Regional Arts Commission, an event where all of your artistic friends may come and help us pave the way and of course leave their indelible mark on our community.
We of course would welcome the involvement of anyone hoping to help the Council pull this off.
In short we could always use donations, monetary or labor. GDT: So it seems to me that you are trying to tell us something without revealing all of your cards? Why be so mosaic? . WEAC: Exactly Guy.
The truth is we do not have every thing lined up.
We really need the monetary donations.
In order for this project to be a success, not just in our outreach to the schools or the opportunity for the professionals, but especially for the event at the Loop in Motion, we need cash. And I do not mean the C&W singing stars.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1996.
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