Episode 12: Fitchburg Arts Community: Investing in Artists to Revive One Downtown Gateway City

Culture Crisis Conversations: Episode 12: Fitchburg Arts Community: Investing in Artists to Revive One Downtown Gateway City

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Fitchburg Art Museum director Nick Capasso about being a bilingual museum whose mission includes showing New England artists & a deep connection to community & economic development for Downtown Fitchburg, including the incoming Fitchburg Arts Community (FAC) affordable housing development. Just 50 miles northwest of Boston, a once-thriving industrial hotbed turns to investing in artists as seeds of economic health for one gateway city.

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Culture Crisis Conversations is produced in partnership with The Record Co, New Alliance Audio & New Alliance East.

Culture Crisis Conversations, a new podcast series by the #ARTSTAYSHERE Coalition, features in-person conversations with artists, musicians, creative leaders, government, developers & other stakeholders involved with the current crisis in our culture: artist displacement. We look at the problem, the impact, and potential solutions to keep creatives in our region & secure the cultural space needed for their work.