SHREVEPORT COMMON
PUBLIC ART

In the creation of a community cultural district, the overriding goal is to produce an environment in which all forms of artistic expression and the artists themselves can live and flourish. The Shreveport Common cultural district requires visioning at both ends of the spectrum. This is an existing neighborhood with significant landmarks, not empty acreage along a freeway. There are important cultural, religious, and social institutions, landmarks of another sort at every turn. Now some of those are being restored and given new life, significantly—the Municipal Auditorium – and soon the Central Fire Station, which will introduce the dynamic Shreveport Regional Arts Council into the neighborhood. The goal of this Vision Plan is a custom cultural district, with its own special Shreveport scale, and flavor, a place for emerging arts and artists.