SPOKANE, Wash. — Mayor Brown is fulfilling a promise made more than a year ago to reestablish the City of Spokane’s arts office. Brown’s office announced Monday the office’s creation is, “restoring a key resource for local artists, cultural organizations, and creative businesses that had been shuttered under a previous administration.”
“Arts and culture are essential to who we are as a city,” Mayor Lisa Brown said. “Reopening the arts office has been a priority of mine and ensures that the City of Spokane supports the people and organizations that make our community more vibrant and economically resilient.”
The mayor’s office says this underscores Brown’s commitment to the creative economy and fulfills a key recommendation made by the mayor’s Enriching Families and Communities transition committee…