Dallas’ arts landscape is in pandemic recovery mode, but optimism and the Cultural Plan endure | mgranberry
The federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grant grant was available to arts companies whose venues were “shuttered” during 2020. Without it, some say, they might have closed forever.Replacing Scripps is Benjamin Espino, whom City Manager T.C. Broadnax appointed interim director of the Office of Arts and Culture on March 24. On the same day, Broadnax appointed Anne Marie Gan as interim assistant director.
Espino credits Scripps for “the 21st century model” she created by “working through the lens of equity, by reaching out to everyone in the arts community, from the individual Latina artist to such institutional partners as the Dallas Museum of Art and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. ”Following the blueprint“All that I walked into,” she says with a sigh. “Dallas had not done any citywide arts and culture planning since 2004.
Jennifer Scripps, director of Arts and Culture for the city of Dallas, inside a suite at The National Residences in downtown Dallas, on Monday, March 7, 2022.
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