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1. “ How Do the Arts Build Communities?” Part 2 [email_address] www.tresser.com

3. Other Spaces First floor of our HQ office bldg. On the street Nearby vacant lot

6. The Community Arts Program FIND ARTIIST AGREE ON PROJECT OR CLASS PH provided space, marketing, $ for supplies, coaching TRIAL RUN OF PROJECT EXPAND, INCREASE MARKETING, ADD SESSIONS PILOT MICRO-ENTERPRISE Unsuccessful - discontinue Successful – not appropriate for enterprise

7. The Community Arts Program EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMS

11. FESTIVALS

13. Class leads to tile making/installation crew, becomes a co-op business

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15. Drum class students form performance ensemble for paying gigs

16. Do you watch Def Poetry Jam? Malik Yusef was part of the Howard Street Community Arts Program, with 2 tracks on “The Best of Howard Street.” Listen to “Hollywood Jerome.”

20. ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION * DOES THE ARTIST HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL TO OFFER? 1. ARTISTS BRING NEW WAYS OF THINKING AND DOING 2. ARTISTS PRACTICE COLLABORATION AND TEAM BUILDING 3. ARTISTS CREATE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING AND HAVE VISION TO PRODUCE BEAUTY WHERE NONE IS OBVIOUS “ Imagination precedes implementation.”

21. ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION * HOW CAN THE ARTS FOSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? 1. ARTS PROGRAMS CONTRIBUTE TO PUBLIC SAFETY, TRUST, CIVIC COHESION 2. DOING ART BUILDS MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND DEVELOPS COLLABORATIVE AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS 3. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS OFFER RICH OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING FOR THE CREATIVE ECONOMY

22. Arts+CD websites… www.villagearts.org www.manchesterguild.org www.creativecommunitiesonline.org

23. Arts+CD websites… www.developmentgateway.org www.cominguptaller.org www.communityarts.net

24. [email_address] www.tresser.com Creativity is America's most precious natural resource. It's renewable, unlimited and universally available. Creativity is our heritage, our promise and the source of our prosperity. And, like a natural resource, creativity needs to be respected, conserved, stewarded and celebrated. But, like a natural resource, creativity can be polluted, squandered and blocked. Tom Tresser is a consultant, producer, educator and trainer who can help individuals, companies and communities leverage and amplify their creative assets in order to solve problems, create economic value and trigger civic engagement.