Terry Marks was only a few days into her new job as CEO of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance when she was presented with the completed Comprehensive Arts Strategy, commissioned with the help of her predecessor and signed off on by just about everyone who had a hand in it.
In the wake of World War II and amid rising tensions of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a program to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding and cooperation and that would be powered by person-to-person relationships with communities around the world.