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Congressional Record—Senate S2802 S2802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 9, 2020 Mobile and Texas are, likewise, impor- MORNING BUSINESS renovation of a 9,000-square-foot ware- tant. house in Burlington’s South End, a If we are going to have rising sea lev- post-industrial neighborhood with its TRIBUTE TO DOREEN KRAFT els and spend all of our money on the own indigenous art scene. While South inland areas—not where people live but Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, the End artists and businessowners ini- where people visit on vacation—as op- last few months have presented an un- tially saw the warehouse purchase as posed to the coastlines, which have the precedented challenge for communities an encroachment by city government ports that sustain where people live and families across the country, and on their turf, relations have improved and sustain the vitality of those in the Vermont is no different. It is refreshing as collaboration between BCA and heartland, we are being foolish with to take a moment to celebrate the peo- South End artists has grown, on issues our public policy. ple and entities that are at the founda- of art promotion and city planning. tion of our community identities. I As renovation of the warehouse con- The same USDA report highlighted want to take a moment to recognize tinues, I look forward to seeing how the consequences of an inadequate in- one of these people in Vermont—Do- Doreen and Burlington City Arts can frastructure along the waterways, say- reen Kraft—who was profiled in March continue to give voice to new artists ing that inadequate infrastructure for her leadership of Burlington City and perspectives, promoting not only leads to reduced transportation capac- Arts. the arts community but also greater ity, raising shipping rates, meaning For the past 25 years, Doreen has conversation and cooperation between less income to the farmers who are been the director of Burlington City the government and the people it shipping—which reduces U.S. economic Arts—BCA—a Burlington city depart- serves. With that, as we make decisions activity—and a loss of global competi- ment that promotes Vermont artists on how to assist our communities tiveness. while supporting art exhibition, cre- through this crisis, we must also re- I could go on. I will just say that as- ation, and education. Doreen is an inte- member the communities that we rep- sociated industries impacted by the gral member of the Burlington city resent, and individuals that make our Iowa grain exports support business government and arts community. As communities so remarkable. I want to from agriculture, forestry, real estate, described by Pat Robbins, the former recognize and thank Doreen Kraft, not restaurants, and pesticides, to name a BCA Center board chair, Doreen is only for her everlasting support of the few. This is just in Iowa. ‘‘overcommitted . and always over- arts, but as an ardent public servant The ports in the gulf coast support scheduled, but she is a marvelous fund- whose efforts highlight the importance those folks in Iowa, and we should sup- raiser. Everybody takes her calls. Ev- of community, equality, and accessi- port the ports. We should support the erybody goes to lunch with her.’’ As bility. ports, which support Iowa. the director of the BCA Center, Doreen I ask unanimous consent that her To summarize, my colleagues and I has raised millions of dollars that have profile be printed in the RECORD. are fighting for fairness and equity. helped BCA further the arts in Bur- There being no objection, the mate- That is what this is about. I have high- lington. Something that I most appre- rial was ordered to be printed in the lighted obvious inequities both in how ciate about Doreen is that she makes RECORD, as follows: the gulf region is treated and how the arts accessible for all Vermonters. [From Seven Days, Mar. 11, 2020] other States are treated—spending Jacqueline Posley, a BCA board mem- AFTER 40 YEARS AND FIVE MAYORS, DOREEN money not where people live but where ber who relocated to our beautiful KRAFT STEERS BURLINGTON CITY ARTS INTO people visit. State from Mississippi, put it best by THE SOUTH END I am pointing out the consequences saying that Doreen fosters an environ- (By Margaret Grayson) to midwestern farmers. They don’t ben- ment at BCA that values people most Doreen Kraft doesn’t really want to talk about Doreen Kraft. During a recent recep- efit very much at all—if you live in for the connections they make in the community, rather than ‘‘by the depth tion for new exhibitions at the BCA Center Iowa, Kansas, or Nebraska—from the on Church Street, she preferred to direct a Great American Outdoors Act, but they of their pockets.’’ While she has led the reporter’s attention to everyone else in the would benefit from a sustainable port BCA Center for 25 years, Doreen’s work room: a dedicated board member; Bur- system, which means that those ports in Burlington began long before she lington’s supportive mayor; the brilliant di- they rely upon to ship goods around was appointed director. In 1981, as the rector of another local nonprofit. the world will be there even as sea lev- mayor of Burlington, now-Senator Upstairs in her office, the longtime execu- tive director of Burlington City Arts praised els rise. BERNIE SANDERS made the accessibility of the arts a priority, and Doreen be- its successive gallery curators and explained Now, I am all for, by the way, taking how willing they had been to do hands-on care of deferred maintenance in parks, came the first paid employee of the work and volunteer extra time. She talked but I think, in the relative hierarchy of mayor’s Task Force for the Arts. Do- up a waitress at a restaurant that was what we should do, we should take care reen established a concert series in partnering with BCA, who, unacquainted of where people live. And I will repeat Burlington’s Battery Park and the an- with Kraft, recently encouraged her to make once more: 42 percent of the people live nual Burlington Discover Jazz Fes- a donation to the organization. tival. By 1990, the task force had be- Kraft excels at this kind of schmoozing, in a parish or county that is directly probing and promoting at the same time. on a coastline; 82 percent of Americans come a department of the city govern- ment, renamed Burlington City Arts. People describe her as a coach, an advocate, live in a coastal State. That is not a great listener—essentially, who she is to where the bulk of these dollars are In 1995, the year Doreen was appointed other people, as if her role is to reflect the spent. as director, BCA opened its first gal- best version of everyone around her. It’s an lery in the old Firehouse on Church We have a bipartisan group of Sen- approach that has helped her grow BCA— Street, Burlington’s main downtown through the administrations of five different ators supporting; we have environ- area. Since then, the Firehouse Gallery mayors—from a janitor’s closet in the base- mentally focused groups supporting as and BCA have gained substantial rec- ment of city hall to a municipal department well, and what they are supporting is ognition. With extensive fundraising charged with fostering public art and cul- an amendment which would actually and community investment, BCA ren- ture. help create this equity that would Since the organization’s founding in 1980, ovated the Firehouse into a full visual allow dollars to be put into a fund to Kraft, 68, has been a driving force. For the arts center, renaming the gallery to help coastal States—where people last 25 years, she’s led BCA as it has created BCA Center in 2011. Since 1995, the gal- galleries and studios, developed art classes live—but would be part of a bill to take lery has become a hub for visual arts in and summer camps, curated art in public care of where people visit. downtown Burlington, helping the city spaces, won and distributed grants, and orga- I wish it were the other way around, to become a destination known for its nized citywide events such as Festival of but those are not the priorities of the burgeoning arts scene, due in large Fools and Highlight, Burlington’s New Year’s Eve celebration. The city contributes people who are promoting the Great part to Doreen’s work as director. American Outdoors Act. a portion of the funds for those cultural ac- Doreen has continued to expand the tivities. I thank you for this time. reach of BCA beyond Church Street. Kraft raises at least half of the rest of the I yield the floor. BCA recently purchased and began the money single-handedly. Most recently, she VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:15 Jun 10, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09JN6.053 S09JNPT1 CTELLI on DSK30NT082PROD with SENATE June 9, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2803 spearheaded the purchase of a building at 405 lington City Arts. Kraft was on the board at New Mexico. But, unsure what to do after Pine Street that now houses the organiza- the time but didn’t become executive direc- graduation, she fell in with ‘‘a group of tion’s art studios. Kraft and her team need tor until 1995. Like Fletcher Free Library, merry pranksters,’’ she said. Kraft moved to to find $5 million to renovate it.
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