Webinar today to feature work of arts in Promise Zone

 

How arts work within community development

The work of arts leaders around the S.C. Promise Zone will be a focus of a live webinar discussion set for noon EDT today with Sandi Curd of Kentucky and Susan DuPlessis of the S.C. Arts Commission.

If you can’t participate, we’ll post a recorded version when it is available.

Background:  “The Art of Community: Rural S.C.”

On March 15 and 16, a group of arts advisors from the Promise Zone and leaders from other parts of the state and nation met to showcase the S.C. Arts Commission’s initiative known as “The Art of Community: Rural S.C.”  Participants hailed from as far away as Iowa, Vermont, Indiana, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
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Press and Standard: Moving a community forward

Local, state and national leaders talked about injecting arts into community development in Walterboro, Nov. 13, 2015.

Local, state and national leaders talked about injecting arts into community development in Walterboro, Nov. 13, 2015.

Excerpted from The (Walterboro) Press and Standard  |  Read the full story here

DEC. 4, 2015  |  All the ink goes to tax breaks and incentives when a community is successful in attracting a new employer, but the recruiting of an economic development prospect involves everything, including arts and culture.

Often potential economic development factors like the arts and culture are overlooked.

Susan DuPlessis of the South Carolina Arts Commission, said, “It is all so knitted together that sometimes it is difficult to tease out all these different pieces.”  Culture and the arts, she explained, is a vital part of a community’s quality of life “that helps make a place that people want to be.”

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