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THE 100 BEST ART TOWNS IN AMERICA
From New England's coastline to alpine villages in
the Rocky Mountains, hotbeds of creativity are everywhere.
THE 100 BEST ART TOWNS IN AMERICA and ART TOWNS CALIFORNIA are guides to these creative communities and their cultural assets.
Art Towns are typically uncomplicated and affordable. While a handful are trendy, hectic and exclusive, all are entertaining places to visit and inspiring locales to call home.
Many became cheap artist havens when their once-prosperous economies fell on hard times. Others evolved after visitors discovered their abundance of summer festivals celebrating local music talents, playwrights and accomplished artisans.
Art Towns have attracted innovative business entrepreneurs ... visionaries pursuing passions from roasting Sumatran coffee beans to developing social networking software. Their art galleries, wine bars and bistro cafes are patronized by sociable locals and vacationing culture lovers ... the same visitors who seriously consider becoming Art Town home owners.
From Great Plains agricultural hubs to oceanfront retreats in the Carolinas, established artists, reformed urbanites and hard working families have turned off-the-beaten-path places into vibrant Art Towns. Some of these communities have populations in the hundreds while a few boast nearly 100,000 residents. Without exception, all Art Towns value their creative sector's economic and social impacts as important civic assets.
Communities with art galleries, live music venues, theaters, street fairs and eclectic neighbors exemplify a special quality of life. Culturally informed and comfortably different, Art Towns are also open-minded places where creativity is woven into the rhythms of life's daily engagements.
A national mosaic of diverse cultural expressions, lifestyles, and ethnic origins is celebrated in the creative qualities and expanding economies of Art Towns. Discover for yourself these exceptional places where community optimism is as limitless as a high desert sunset.
THE 100 BEST ART TOWNS IN AMERICA and ART TOWNS CALIFORNIA are guides to these creative communities and their cultural assets.
Art Towns are typically uncomplicated and affordable. While a handful are trendy, hectic and exclusive, all are entertaining places to visit and inspiring locales to call home.
Many became cheap artist havens when their once-prosperous economies fell on hard times. Others evolved after visitors discovered their abundance of summer festivals celebrating local music talents, playwrights and accomplished artisans.
Art Towns have attracted innovative business entrepreneurs ... visionaries pursuing passions from roasting Sumatran coffee beans to developing social networking software. Their art galleries, wine bars and bistro cafes are patronized by sociable locals and vacationing culture lovers ... the same visitors who seriously consider becoming Art Town home owners.
From Great Plains agricultural hubs to oceanfront retreats in the Carolinas, established artists, reformed urbanites and hard working families have turned off-the-beaten-path places into vibrant Art Towns. Some of these communities have populations in the hundreds while a few boast nearly 100,000 residents. Without exception, all Art Towns value their creative sector's economic and social impacts as important civic assets.
Communities with art galleries, live music venues, theaters, street fairs and eclectic neighbors exemplify a special quality of life. Culturally informed and comfortably different, Art Towns are also open-minded places where creativity is woven into the rhythms of life's daily engagements.
A national mosaic of diverse cultural expressions, lifestyles, and ethnic origins is celebrated in the creative qualities and expanding economies of Art Towns. Discover for yourself these exceptional places where community optimism is as limitless as a high desert sunset.