Thinking about our arts community today. Thinking about how what they create enriches our region in so many ways, including our region’s economic prosperity. We come together in classes, performances, workshops, conversations, shared experiences. Prudence suggests that we distance ourselves from each other for a time. In doing so, our lack of attendance at the many and varied offerings strains their economic stability. Some of our organizations are strong, others very fragile, many  somewhere in between. It’s exactly this kind of emergency that can wound and potentially decimate the vibrant economic engine of our arts environment, which has been one of the more significant agents pulling us out of our 2008/09 recession.