What was once a strip of abandoned warehouses is now a collection of art studios and performance spaces, almost all of which are open to the public for free.
We brought in historic lighting and shade trees, and began converting the vacant buildings into pop-up business such as local cafes, markets, flower shops and art studios for kids.
As other cities continued building freeways that promoted driving and sprawl, Vancouver remained committed to urban living, as evidenced by the development of Granville Island, a pedestrian-friendly peninsula where residents frequent large public market and art studios.
"Of course, it goes without saying, it's war, it is about hunger, we have all of that, yes, but tilt the scale and if you can show the potential and the solution to these and not just point out blatantly the bad side, the problems, the crises that we have, " he says from the state-of-the-art CCTV studios in Nairobi.
The Main Building, which is the centerpiece of a federally designated historic district in the Clinton Hill neighborhood, houses fine-art classes and studios in addition to administrative offices, the Pratt statement said.
Several art galleries and glass studios cluster along the eastern portion of Market Street heading away from downtown.
Opposite the museum is the KultuuriKatel (Culture Cauldron), where work is underway to transform the gasworks into Tallinn's own miniature version of London's Tate Modern gallery by 2015, combining art galleries, music studios and public spaces.
Along with artist studios, a number of art galleries have also opened in the past few years.
Ross has made a synergistic art of sucking up to celebrities, movie studios and magazines.
While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.
The frustrated art lover spent long afternoons visiting museums, galleries and artist's studios, dealing in the odd painting by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Over the next decades, he exchanged the downtown art scene for the Hamptons bohemia of Sag Harbor, where he set up studios with the landscape painter April Gornick, whom he later married.
The oddity is that the row comes at a time when French films, many of them more accessible than the art-house product that English-speakers tend to imagine are the French studios' only output, are standing their ground against the perceived invasion from Hollywood.
Then there are the aforementioned local studios, a result of this town attracting educated types who either appreciate good art or need outlets for their creativity.
They opened studios and hosted creative events - Afro-Brazilian drumming in the streets, art walks - that gave the district its reputation as a vibrant, but still edgy, arts district.
Studios these days are shooting for blockbusters, like Transformers 3, or small incredibly cheap art films, like The Kids are All Right.
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