HomeMy WebLinkAboutLtr to Chase Financial-480 Court Street
June 4, 2016
Chase Financial
1806 Daley Canyon Road
San Bernardino, CA 92404
Re: 480 Court Street, San Bernardino
To Whom It May Concern:
I understand that you are the owner or the contact person for the above-referenced building in San
Bernardino. The Fine Arts Commission of the City is currently working on a project to revitalize the
downtown area. Our plan is to place art (photographs and paintings, etc.) and poetry in the empty
windows of some of the vacant buildings in that area, in hopes that this will attract passers-by to stop and
look and tell others about the art in the windows, which will increase the foot traffic in the area. The
windows in the building at 480 Court Street are especially well-suited to this kind of display.
We will be asking local artists and art students from local schools and colleges to submit art and poetry
for the project, and hopefully have enough submissions to rotate the displays periodically. Obviously, the
work will need to be on the inside of the windows; thus our volunteers would need access in order to
clean the windows and install the art work. We would, of course, need the written permission of the
owner in order to do this.
Last spring and summer, we worked with the owner of the empty building at 468 West 5th Street (next
door to the Subway Restaurant) and installed an exhibit of photographs and poetry by two professors
from Cal State University, San Bernardino. The exhibit remained in the windows for about two months,
and elicited many positive comments. This is the model that we expect to follow with this new project.
We would like very much to work with you on this project. If you are interested, or need additional
information, please contact me at 909-862-3668 or by email at erdogar@roadrunner.com
Sincerely,
Dorothy Garcia, Ed.D, Chair
San Bernardino City Fine Arts Commission