The city of Kent is seeking applicants to fill two vacancies on the Kent Arts Commission.<\/p>\n
The Arts Commission advises the City Council and staff in areas such as: establishing cultural opportunities and arts education, improving the quality of life and enhancing the aesthetic environment and promoting Kent as a center for great arts.<\/p>\n
Commissioners are appointed by the mayor in consultation with Arts Commission staff and confirmed by City Council. Members serve four-year terms. Unless otherwise noted, meetings are held at 5:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month.<\/p>\n
The desired background for Arts Commissioners includes:<\/p>\n
• Commitment to the arts in the Kent community<\/p>\n
• Knowledge of arts issues and events in the Puget Sound region<\/p>\n
• Arts education or experience<\/p>\n
• Any of the following: public speaking, leadership experience, previous service on boards, commissions or councils, resource development, community involvement<\/p>\n
Commissioners must reside or own property within the city or one of its utility or parks department service areas or, alternatively, work or own a business within the city’s municipal boundaries. Interested parties may apply online at KentArts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Board advises City Council about arts programs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":37754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37753"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}