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<br />Araiza, Fatima <br />From:Stephanie Butler <stephanie@sixtoesstudio.com> <br />Sent:Wednesday, May <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Comment Re: Santa Ana Arts Budget: Arts and Culture Master Plan, Arts and Culture <br />Council <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Re: Santa Ana Arts Budget: Arts and Culture Master Plan, Arts and Culture Council <br /> <br />Esteemed members, <br /> <br />Thank you for reviewing the Arts and Culture budget of our city and considering the ideas proposed for an <br />examination of the return on investment in Bowers Museum over the past decades, and how it impacts potential <br />opportunities for Visual and Performing Artist residents in Santa Ana. <br /> <br />I believe that Bowers Museum holds value to our city as an art historical institution. My focus as art educator, <br />artist, small arts business owner, and hopeful artist incubator is on extant and upcoming artists, specifically in our <br />vibrant city. We have an abundance of extraordinary artists residing in our city, and many more up-and-coming <br />artists ready for guidance and investment in them. <br /> <br />We are about to experience rapid growth of residency and tourism to Santa Ana, and many artists already report <br />struggles in obtaining enough space to work, which limits their ability in the type of work, quantity of works <br />produced, and ability to grow their microbusinesses (as artists are microbusinesses) in our city. Your budgetary <br />decisions may directly impact thousands of artist residents. <br /> <br />Since there is a wealth of data already available to you on the economic impact of the arts in our city and county, I’ll <br />summarize my respectful requests short: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> When considering budgetary decisions, please prioritize our living visual and performing artists residing in <br />Santa Ana first. Your investment in your own residents will have massive impacts and returns in <br />representation, <br /> economic and cultural metrics, quality of life for our residents, tourism, and much more. “Support living <br />artists; the dead ones don’t need it.” <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Please analyze the return on investment the City makes in Bowers Museum: which focuses exhibiting <br />global art history, and is a 501(c)3 that has many more opportunities for grants and fundings than local <br />resident visual and performing artists do. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Please consider the fiscally sound and proactive investment in the Arts and Culture budget, including the <br />retro-active funding of the Arts and Culture Master Plan that has not been fully funded for six years. Each <br />dollar of investment in our extant, local visual <br />1 <br /> <br />
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