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While we’re a small community, we also have a lot of international… there’s a lot of international business happening. So the opportunity for the arts to be the window to the world is an important part of our goal and vision at the Walton Arts Centre. So looking for different perspectives
and looking for a different vision is very important, and whether it be, you know, a vision that’s from the United States or from Mexico or from Western Europe or from South America or from Canada, it’s something that we very much value.
I was introduced to Canadian artists early on in my programmatic kind of role at the Walton Arts Centre. I began as our education director, and I went to the International Performing Arts. It’s called IPA. It’s a conference that introduces people to its youth programming. And at the time I was introduced to the very...
more issue-oriented work, and that issue-oriented aesthetic that spoke to young people, what they were interested in, what was going on in their lives I felt was an important part of the artistic pallet that we wanted to bring to our community in Northwest Arkansas.