Community arts in rural settings

In May 2007 John Brotman, Ontario Arts Council Executive Director, delivered a paper on \u27Community Arts in Rural Settings\u27 as part of the Canadian Cultural Observatory?s \u27In Focus Speaker Series\u27 on Rural Arts. Brotman\u27s premise, upon which he elaborates with many inspiring examples, is that there is such a phenomenon as \u27rural arts\u27 and that this art form is well-suited to the needs of rural areas because of its capacity to build, bind, enrich and, most importantly, transform communities. In this report Jacqueline Nolte, Department Head, Visual Arts, University College of the Fraser Valley, discusses the implications of John Brotman?s designation of a \u27rural arts\u27