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Neighbors & Friends

INNOVATORS AND NEIGHBORS

Building a Great City

By: Jessica Graves

Rio Vista recognized as first

“Neighborhood of the Month” during Free Fort

Lauderdale Neighbor Day, September 29, at

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale:

a cultural jewel in your backyard

uring the 1920s, many of Rio Vista’s earliest leadership roles within the Museum’s Board of Governors,
residents shared the belief that a center of arts and Friends and Beaux Arts auxiliary groups, and have been
Dculture was essential to the quality of life in their driving forces behind such beloved past events as The
burgeoning city. The generation that followed them paved Festival of Trees and Promenade in the Park, and current
the way for the establishment of the Fort Lauderdale Art education programs like Museum on the Move (Free school
field trips).
Center in 1958, which ultimately grew to become the
nationally recognized NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. To extend the Museum’s appreciation for the people and
associations of Rio Vista, at its next Fort Lauderdale
Over the past six decades, residents of Rio Vista have
contributed time, talent and financial resources that have Neighbor Day on Sunday, September 29, NSU Art
Museum Fort Lauderdale will recognize Rio Vista as its first
helped make the Museum a vibrant cultural hub for the
community. They have held and continue to hold numerous ever “Neighborhood of the Month.”

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