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The Art Base is set to open in its new building next month. The community art center bought it last year for $1.7 million. Photo Olive and West With saws whirring and hammers banging nearby, on a recent walk-through of the Art Base’s soon-to-open, new two-story home in downtown Basalt, the community art center’s director said she has seen an outpouring of support for the nonprofit in recent months as it launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to pay for its new building and fund its post-pandemic future. “I was blown away by the response,” said Art Base executive director Skye Skinner. “It was like magic.” ....
When the Basalt River Park development was going through the town government’s review process a big selling point was providing a future, permanent home for the nonprofit Art Base. Due to unexpected circumstances namely a pandemic the Art Base changed direction and purchased an existing building on Midland Avenue instead. Now the big question is what’s going to happen to the 6,500-squre-foot space eyed for the community arts center in the River Park development. The Basalt Town Council will start sorting through the possibilities in a work session Feb. 23, according to Mayor Bill Kane. Basalt River Park faced an uncertain fate when it went through months of review by the Basalt Town Council in 2019 and early 2020. A development group headed by Tim Belinski and Andrew Light pitched a project that combines free market residences, affordable housing units, offices and commercial space. ....