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5 = Highly Recommend <br />4 = Recommend <br />3= No Opinion <br />2 = Disapprove <br />1 = Highly Disapprove <br />D.Neighborhood Community Arts Centers <br />The Price Senior Center isa formative place in the development of San <br />Marcos arts with a theater and art classes. The center should be supported as a <br />neighborhood art center. <br />The Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos provides youth arts,music <br />classes, cultural events, and programs to the Georgia Street Senior Centerand <br />should becomea community arts center. <br />The Dunbar recreational center should expand arts services and become a <br />community arts center. <br />MUSEUMS <br />Create a downtown Texas Swing Museum/Texas Music Museum thathosts the <br />Texas Swing Music Hall of Fame. <br />Create a Downtown gallery/museum venue for rotating art exhibits from Texas <br />State(Witliff Collection, Mitte, etc.). This will be a downtown attraction and <br />promote the arts resources of Texas State. <br />Create a San Marcos Children’s Museum. <br />Create a program that transforms abandoned buildings into boutique museums. <br />Create a boutique hotel downtown to increase cultural tourism traffic. <br />The Cephas House should become an Eddie Durham Museum. <br />If the Cephas does not become an Eddie Durham Museum, create an exhibit <br />about him near the Eddie Durham Park. <br />PUBLIC SPACE <br />To facilitate parking and enhance safety near the Square, alleyways should <br />become cultural passageways with public art, murals and illumination at night. <br />The pedestrian trails along the rivers and waterways and Aquarena Springs <br />should become an eco-tourism zone with opportunities to become a center for <br />eco-art. <br />Createinspirational walking paths which incorporate community art-making <br />such as murals and mosaics. <br />Createwalking tours of the City oriented around cultural venues and art such <br />as the Centro Cultural, LBJ Museum, Calaboose, and Cephas House. <br />The Sculpture Garden at the Activitycenter/Library should become the start of <br />a pedestrian art trail with the Walker shows as ananchor. <br />Parks and Recreation Department <br />Grant Harris, Jr., Building401 E, Hopkins San Marcos, TX 78666 \[512\] 393-8400 <br /> <br />