Five artists, arts administrators and arts funders gathered in a sweltering early evening Thursday for a checkup about the state of the arts in Lakeland.
Gillian Fazio, the muralist, Ashley Gibson Barnett, the philanthropist and entrepreneur, Ashley Miller, the executive director of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra and Tiffany Van Weiren, the coordinator of arts in medicine at the Watson Clinic Foundation, assembled for a discussion at the AGB, Barnett’s namesake museum.
The discussion was moderated by Daryl Ward, the executive director of the Polk Arts & Cultural Alliance and also an artist (Ward won a Merit Award for his fine art photography at Mayfaire-by-the-Lake last weekend)…