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It is an exciting time for Marshalltown! Congratulations to our city on the Council’s decision to invest in the implementation of our community’s Arts & Cul
Art can help present the values that communities want to project and protect as a way of maintaining and creating great places to live.
Art can help anchor places even as they are reshaped.
With the market pressing in on one side and near-poverty on the other, how might artists’ long-standing tendency to identify not with their patrons but rather with the relatively voiceless in society be expressed or suppressed?
Essentially, placemaking is a strategy and effort to realize the benefits of creativity and place-based identity in a town.