[Editor's Note: Ami Sallee Corley is an actor, a teacher and now a blogger for CL. (That's Ami in the photo at left with Drew DeCaro, Bechir Sylvain and Petrus
Antonius, fellow members of the cast of Gorilla Theatre's recent Six Degrees of Separation.) I'm pleased to have her join the conversation, which she begins with a particularly cogent question for area artists.]
In a city where an artist's choice is to survive on crumbs or leave, why would anyone want to stay and starve as an artist in Tampa?
I believe there are some pretty fantastic reasons out there.
If we are to build a thriving, sustainable arts and culture scene here in Tampa, we should at first focus on what makes it tempting to stay. Here goes.
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2009.