Community Involvement for an Art Gallery

"Hi, this is Christina Varga from the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, New York and today on behalf of Expert Village we’re going to show you how to open and run your own art gallery. And now let’s think about how you can enrich your community by having a fabulous gallery. Let me tell you how much people tell me they love what I’m doing, they really do and not only that I’m bringing people from outside the community here, I’m sharing beauty in a public venue and people from anywhere. This guy came back yesterday from Tokyo, that’s his second visit to Varga from Tokyo, that’s a big deal you want to reach out to the community, you want them to love what you’re doing, you want them to feel like they want to come back, you want them to send other people as well and when you make your community a better place, by making your building beautiful, by planting beautiful flowers, by showing artwork outside, everybody appreciates it. It enriches the area and it makes people happier to be here even if they’re not happy in their regular lives, they’ll be happier because you’re in it and that’s good and that’s what a gallery should be."