We’re starting a new monthly feature on KSMU’s Arts News: the last Friday of each month I’ll have a conversation with Emily Frankoski, Community Arts Director for Connect2Culture, which is Joplin’s equivalent of the Springfield Area Arts Council. Each month Emily will spotlight some of the major arts events taking place throughout the following month in Joplin. So today she highlights events coming up in April. But first, I asked her to give me a short history of Connect2Culture, which has evolved into the role of Joplin art agency over a period of several years. “We were founded in 2009 to build a new performing and visual arts center to improve quality of life in Joplin. And that project is still ongoing. It has actually moved through different locations and iterations, but we finally settled on a spot for it, right on the parking lot of our Memorial Hall in downtown Joplin. It will be called the Harry M. Cornell Arts and Entertainment Complex, or ‘The Cornell Complex’ for short. We
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