The Chat tackles the Star Store issue. Former Mayor Lang: “These are world renowned artists and we have shut the door on them by allowing an unstable university system with intransigent leaders coming into our area and telling us what’s good for us. I am tired of people treating us like a colony.”
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The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane updates the ongoing Star Store debacle
The New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane has been digging deep into the abrupt closure of UMass Dartmouth’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Star Store campus, and he dropped […]
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Montigny flexed political muscle to keep arts college in downtown New Bedford
Mark Montigny is an old-style, transactional politician. Maybe that’s what it takes sometimes to keep the bureaucrats and scholars at bay.
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Montigny brokers deal for state to buy Star Store, keep arts college in New Bedford
The deal will also require the state to set aside $30 million in long-term bonding authority for upgrades to the campus and to immediately address deferred maintenance in this year’s budget.
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Wake up, New Bedford. If UMD’s traditional fine arts succumb to the practical, the city will lose.
Talk to anyone who has been involved in the renewal of downtown New Bedford over the last 20 years and they will tell you the arrival of UMass Dartmouth artists has been an integral part of the city’s revival.
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Changing nature of UMD’s art classes at New Bedford’s Star Store Campus fuels concern
The college dean sees the necessity to expand design space and downsize some underutilized studio arts spaces, while others worry the campus will lose the faculty and students who earned it a national reputation and played a role in the city’s revitalization.