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>The Bench Project
>What We Need is Here: Encouraging Sustainable Communities
>Arts Mean Business in the St. Croix Valley
>Training for Nonprofit Leaders and Staff
What We Need is Here: Encouraging Sustainable Communities
For the past four years an array of partners including The Phipps Center for the Arts, University of Wisconsin River Falls, St. Croix Valley Community Foundation and local arts organizations have organized a series of community forums, conversations and art exhibitions to address issues significant to the St. Croix Valley: watershed and land use, our changing rural landscape, developing social capital, and building community through the arts.
What We Need is Here weaves these themes together to blend a discussion on sustainability with the creativity of the arts. The following issue statement guides the questions and issues that will be explored through this year’s events:
News of threats to our environment, economy and society tell us our ways of living are being challenged. How can we turn these challenges into an opportunity to create sustainable, vibrant and imaginative communities? What would that look like in the St. Croix Valley? What if, as author and environmentalist Wendell Berry wrote, "What we need is here?"
Do we have what we need to address these present and future challenges? How can people of different backgrounds pool their perspectives and talents to create meaningful change? How do we approach a new way of being?
Please join us and participate in these exploratory and educational conversations. For more information on related events go to the Phipps webpage or contact Anastasia Shartin, Phipps Visual Arts Director at 715.386.2305.
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