Population: Saugatuck: 980 Douglas: 1,305 Top Via Flickr/ Spieth Family Imagesīottom Left Via Yelp/ Saugatuck Center for the Arts American master Frank Lloyd Wright made the area his home, and his Wyoming Valley School (the only public school in his repertoire) now provides space for workshops, performances, lectures, and exhibits that foster creative endeavors of the area. Visual arts also prevail at the local galleries like the Jura Silverman Gallery, The Opal Man, and Wilson Creek Pottery, and are supported by organizations like the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition and Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts. Autumn visitors should take the Fall Art Tour, which is part road trip, part leaf-peeping, but mostly an opportunity to meet some of Wisconsin’s most well-known artists, who open their studios for an insider view to the creative process. Productions span classical and modern, from Shakespeare to Chekhov. Founded in 1977, and with a brand-new stage in 2017, the company is constantly creating fresh takes on favorites. With strong theater roots, Spring Green maintains its passion for plays at the exceptional American Players Theatre. For all their efforts, both recent and historical, these are the cities we’ve found are most contributing to the artistic culture of our country. are leading centers of art with bigger resources and tourist draws, but this country’s mid- and small-size places keep exciting, surprising, and thriving with their creative spirits and innovation.Īs with last year, we’ve chosen cities with populations under 1 million in the city center, but this time we are presenting them from least populous to most. In our second-annual feature of the most artistic towns in America, we followed largely the same rules as last year, finding another wealth of places currently giving our large cities a run for their money with creative festivals, top art schools, cutting-edge productions, dynamic street art, and generous community support and patronage. Perhaps that’s why it is so exciting to visit places with thriving arts communities, where you may run across colorful graffiti and murals, talented street performers, inspiring museums, stimulating literary events, and world-class theater. Art also allows us to do this, to take journeys to new ways of thinking and experiencing the world, to see deeper and live richer through imagination and connection. Why do you love to travel? Chances are, it’s not so you can do the same things over and over again, but to see, hear, and feel something new. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation.” –Lyndon Johnson “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. By Lily Rogers, on FebruAmerica’s most artistic towns
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