“Art Makes Art”
Every community has some connection to art. Whether it’s the local elementary school children fingerpainting in art class or a Broadway-caliber musical performance or a teenager scratching poems into the back of their notebook in the middle of a boring geometry lesson (no offense to geometry teachers), art is present in each of our lives, every day, in some form. Despite the constant interaction with and dependence on arts, many do not know much about their local arts communities. When I connected with some of the leaders in the Detroit Lakes arts community, I realized just how…