{"id":4597,"date":"2012-03-05T01:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2012-03-05T01:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:36:53","slug":"bridge-capital-mulls-art-gallery-for-cnmi-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bridge-capital-mulls-art-gallery-for-cnmi-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Capital mulls art gallery for CNMI artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns117000.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge Capital office manager\/chief asset manager Allen Perez gestures as he talks about plans to sponsor an art gallery for Arts Council artists last Wednesday. (Clarissa V. David)\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 After its generous donation for the 31st Annual Flame Tree Arts Festival, Bridge Capital, LLC now looks at sponsoring a venue where Arts Council-registered artists can display their work conspicuously \u201con a more permanent and larger scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need to find a location,\u201d office manager\/chief asset manager Allen Perez told Arts Council staff in a meeting at the Bridge Capital office last week.<\/p>\n<p>Perez emphasized that the location should be \u201caccessible to the masses\u201d to get a lot of promotion for talented local artists.<\/p>\n<p>Garapan, he said, would be an ideal location for many people because of the ease of access not only for the artists but also the viewing public, unlike the current Arts Council gallery next to the post office in Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are properties in Garapan that are big enough \u201cbut the cost is unreasonable,\u201d said Perez.<\/p>\n<p>He added that government buildings or properties can also be utilized for this art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Perez assured that Bridge Capital will continue to work with the Arts Council to find the right location for the art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridge Capital could really be the catalyst to get this thing going and our idea is just to have our local artists have a venue to display and sell their artwork. With the assistance from Arts Council and other government agencies and private or non-profit groups, we could make this happen,\u201d added Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Arts Council executive director Angel S. Hocog welcomed the news, saying that this initiative could well be the gallery that the council has longed for the CNMI&#8217;s traditional and contemporary artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter \u00a0 After its generous donation for the 31st Annual Flame Tree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}