Does an Art Town need an Art Town Coordinator?

The July 9th edition of the Northfield News has an article by Adam Johnson titled "Taking Northfield arts to the next level." He reported on last Thursday's meeting at the library where a group of community leaders and arts representatives met to discuss the need for an Arts Town coordinator who "would manage the efforts of the town's various organizations in the hopes of developing and maintaining a high-profile, well-organized 'arts town.'"

NDDC's Ross Currier posted to his blog earlier today about the Thursday meeting (Community Resources and the Pursuit of the Art Town), disagreeing with this approach and inviting people to discuss its pros and cons on the Northfield.org ISSUES List: Does an Art Town need an Art Town Coordinator?

For more background on the issue... Back on June 21, I posted a six-minute MP3 audio file titled, The N.org audio interview: Making Northfield an Art Town. It was my audio interview with NDDC Executive Director Ross Currier about his weblog post, Making Northfield an Art Town.

Here's a 6-minute MP3 of my "Art Town" interview with Ross Currier that I originally posted to Northfield.org.

And here's a lightly edited video (4 minutes) of the same interview.