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24 <br />City of San Marcos Arts Master Plan <br />List of Recommendations <br />SPACES: <br />Collaborative Arts and Cultural Centers <br />Stakeholder Survey Recommendations (with average score): <br />Build a San Marcos Arts Center dedicated to cultural programming.This center <br />could serve the dual role of servicing a specific locale within San Marcos, but <br />also act as an anchor for cultural programming throughout the City.(4.5) <br />Create an art center that provides after-school programs, houses a museum, <br />gallery/performance space,and hosts art classes (similar to the Carver in <br />Austin).(4.4) <br />The Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos provides youth arts and music <br />classes, cultural events, and programs to the Georgia Street Senior Center and <br />should become a communityarts center.(4.2) <br />The Dunbar Recreational Center should expand its arts services and become a <br />community arts center.(4) <br />Second Town Meeting Recommendations: <br />Develop a central cultural center. <br />Performing Arts Spaces <br />Stakeholder Survey Recommendations(with average score): <br />The performing arts such as music and theater shall have a dedicated performing <br />arts facility.(4.5) <br />Create a 100-person minimum community performing arts theater that can serve <br />as a home to the community theater, the community chorus, the community <br />orchestra,and multi-cultural performing arts.(4.1) <br />The San Marcos High School auditorium is a quality performance space that <br />should be utilized for major performing arts events.(4) <br />Public Arts Spaces <br />Stakeholder Survey Recommendations (with average score): <br />The pedestrian trails along the rivers and waterways along with the re- <br />development of Aquarena Springs should become an eco-tourism zone with <br />opportunities to become a center for eco-art. (4.7) <br />Create inspirational walking paths which incorporate community art-making such <br />as murals and mosaics generating more public art.(4.4) <br />Provide live and visual art offerings along the river and on the Square.(4.3) <br />The Sculpture Garden at the Activity Center/ Library should become a stepping <br />off point for a pedestrian art trail with the shows at the Walker Gallery as an <br />anchor.(3.9) <br />The Rio Vista area should have functional art park benches and semi-permanent <br />or permanent art that kids can interact with and climb on.(3.9) <br /> <br />