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# Q-Line asks readers about challenges facing local students and parents
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/090606-story/
- Published: 2006-09-06T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:22:32.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pico, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

If you believe there is not enough art, or not enough kinds of art throughout the city, you might want to help shape the future of culture in Santa Monica.

The city of Santa Monica will host a community meeting on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. at Virginia Avenue Park to gather public input on how arts and culture can be encouraged to flourish in the Pico neighborhood. City Hall is preparing a master plan to guide the continued development of the community’s cultural resources, called “Creative Capital.” The goal of the planning process is to forge a common vision for the future of arts and culture in Santa Monica. The workshop will address needs and desires specific to the Pico neighborhood.

Simultaneously, three separate workshops will be taking place, one focusing on teens, another focusing on elementary-age children and one for adults. At the children’s workshop, local artist Marni Gittelson will help the kids convey their desires through the creation of special art glasses which will reveal their dreams of the future.

Carla Fantozzi, director of the Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center will lead high school and middle school students through exercises designed to bring out their ideas for how

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 6, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)