The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-19
fine ARTS MUSEUM
PROJECT is SUBJECT
FOR SESSION NOV IS

Plans to erect Museum of Fine
Arts, which will furnish a meetins
place for societies, and serve as
center for art, music, the drama, lit
erature and other cultural arts, will
be discussed at meeting of central
committee representing organizations
! interested. The meeting will be held
at 1880 o'clock, Sunday evening, Nov.
10 in the art gallery of the Richmond
high school.
Call Tor the meeting is given in a
letter written by William Dudley
Foulke, president Of the Richmond ART
| association, to Mayor Lawrence Hand
Hey. In the letter, he proposes that the
mayor and two city officials represent
the city at this meeting, and that rep
| resentatives of other organizations
| will meet as a central committee to
discuss the matter
! Among the reasons given In favor
| of the project, the following were ad-
vanced in the letter written by Mr..
| Foulke.
Reasons For Museum.
| cd. That there is need and room
| in Richmond for such a building, serv-
| ing as a center for art, music, litera-
ture, the drama, etc, as well as pro-
viding a public auditorium for all
community gatherings and rooms for
club and committee meetings.
"(2). That, while such a center
should provide facilities for the cul-
tural upbuilding of the mature citi-
zens, its greater value would lie in
the use of it as an educational feature
closely linked up with the public
4 fT~oi N N Or
the potential talents of the school chill
dren.
"(3). That many organizations in
the city would be interested in such
movement by reason of the fact that
a building of this description would
provide suitable quarters for them.
they being handicapped by want of
meeting places and even now seeking
ways and means of providing them.
These and other organizations would
also be naturally interested from the
standpoint of general civic improve
ment. Among these organizations are:
The Women's club, the music inter
ests, the art association, the commun-
ity service, as well as the city plan
ming commission, the board of educa-
ton and the city government.
go. That joint effort by all in
l6IoSIS CouCeIueu 10 DulIu up one Cell
ter with adequate facilities for all, in
: stead of individual efforts to provide
: several centers, would be more eco
nomical and more likely of actual real
ization. Such joint effort would also
provide a center of such proportions,
equipment, and accommodations, that it
would be a fitting civic monument.
: would be fitting civic monument.
: cedure for the future would be to in
vite each of the above named organi-
s fZations to choose three of its members
q to meet with a like number from the
others to form a central committee
:. with power to formulate plan to put
into effect the ideas herein contained
THE city government, in the per
son of the mayor and two other city
officials appointed by him or by the
council, is, therefore, asked, in case
the idea as above outlined seems
{ worthwhile and feasible, to be part
of this central committee and to meet
q with the representatives of the other
! organizations in the Art gallery, Sun
4 day evening, Nov. 10. at 1880 o'clock
I at which time The said central commit
n tee will organize and begin its work
q THE ARE ASSOCIATION.
: WIN. D. Foulke. President.S
"E. G.. Cline, Secretary"