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As a baller previously attending several colors, I am said to hear about this tragic cancellation. Maybe next year, we can have a multicolor ball to celebrate Barack Obama making it over the hump of the recession. One man, one ball… several colors.
Maybe no one with any actual money cares for the "Art" scene that everyone hypes about in this little overated town.
The Arts Council has lost its way and has no clear purpose to fill in this community anymore. Sometimes organizations outlive their usefulness but don’t have the courage to acknowledge this and go out of business.
Perhaps the Arts Council discovered that producing such a large fundraising event costs way too much money in actual dollars and in community and human resources to be effective at raising money. Perhaps they discovered that it was counterproductive to produce such a large, resource heavy event that didn’t really promote its core mission. Perhaps they got blowback because the arts council does very little, if any, funding of arts organizations in the community. Or, perhaps they realized they just couldn’t sell such high priced tickets in this economy. Who knows? What is known, by some but not by many, is that the Arts Council is an organization like any other in town and that supporting the Arts Council supports the Arts Council and does not necessarily support the arts in Asheville.