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By LISA CURRIE
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
Reviews are part of life. From early in life we are handed reviews about our status. We get report cards in grade school, grades in college, reviews of job performances, political outcomes and financial updates.
The review often examines past courses and new destinations.
Such a review has recently been completed by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC).
“Our Futures Committee was set up to review what our mandate was and is,” newly elected RAAC president Charlie Tompkins said, a member of the Futures Committee, which was recently-dissolved. The Future Committee had been chaired by Sidney Gottlieb.
Joining Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Tompkins in the latest/ review committee were other RAAC board members Mike Mahoney, Diana Bird, Pat Fillebrown, Marty White, Joyce Abell and non-board member Sally Nash.
“Joyce Abell approached me about heading the committee and I was interested,” Mr. Gottlieb said. He said “RAAC needs to change,” adding that when RAAC was founded eight years ago, Rappahannock County was a “cultural wasteland. There was no organized group to support the arts and cultural entertainment in the county. RAAC filled a badly needed hole in the community.”
As Rappahannock has grown and changed from a rural community to a growing “bedroom community for Northern Virginia as well as a prospering retirement community, a change was needed,” the past president of two consecutive terms, 1982-84, Mr. Gottlieb, said. He added that “no longer is the community a wasteland of cultural events,” but now offers several different options for artists and their audience.
“Some people now feel that RAAC is competing for the same audience with these other groups, as well as for the same money,” Mr. Gottlieb said.
“There must be a half-dozen to a dozen new art-supporting p-oups in the county,” Mr. Gottlieb said, citing the cooperative network at Middle Street Gallery, Ki Theatre and Windmore Foundation in Culpeper County.
After six months of weekly meetings, a 10-page review was made available in August.
“We worked hard — very hard — for six months,” Mr. Gotlieb said, adding still the work continues as changes are made and updates on the report are filed. “We invited people to our meetings, we advertised in the newspaper, we were careful not to exclude anyone who wanted to speak. It was very
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