Bliss
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IU East will host a public forum, "Economics of the Arts," on Monday, April 25, beginning at 6 p.m. in Whitewater Hall, Room 132.
Pamela Bliss, adjunct professor of fine arts at IU East, received a $1,957 Developing Service-Learning Practitioners grant from the Indiana Campus Compact and is using the grant for her Indiana Art and Artists class project. As part of the project, Mel Gray, a professor of economics at the University of St. Thomas and co-author of The Economics of Art and Culture, will speak on economics as a perspective on the arts, with special emphasis on regional implications that include employment, income and cultural capital.
"Richmond and Wayne County used to be a hub of arts and culture. With changing times, the arts become less significant," Bliss said. "Wayne County has a good foundation of the arts and groups have been formed to talk about the arts but neither Richmond nor Wayne County has an official plan. I arranged this forum so that the community may begin dialogues in regard to assessing what Wayne County has to offer of the arts and possibly formalize a specific plan to maintain, promote and bolster the arts."
Richmond Mayor Sally Hutton; Wayne County Commissioner Mary Heyob, T.J. Rivard, chair of the IU East Department of Humanities and Fine Arts; Mary Walker, director of the Welcome Center Richmond/ Wayne County Convention Center and Tourism Bureau; and Don Holbrook, president of the Economic Development Corporation of Wayne County are scheduled to participate.
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