The NY Times reported on efforts to use arts to revitalize Texas’ smaller cities, the subject of the Texas Cultural Trust’s stimulus-funded report, “The Art of Economic Development,” which was released recently. The report uses arts activity in Amarillo, El Paso, Clifton, Texarkana and Rockport as a model for art-driven economic development. Clifton gallerist Smokey Kettler gave the skeptical view from Main St. saying, "you can’t eat it, and you can’t put it in your gas tank.”
Arts drive small-town economies
