The Barton County Arts Council will host a public forum with Brad Anderson, executive director of the Salina Arts and Humanities Commission, at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Ray Schulz Library at the Barton County Historical Society Museum, 85 South U.S. 281, just south of Great Bend across the Arkansas River Bridge.
 Salina Arts and Humanities represents and develops the arts at the city level, and serves in an advisory capacity to the city commission and city manager in matters of public cultural policy. It also has oversight of the Smoky Hill Museum, a regional historical museum, which is a division of the department.
For this program, Anderson will make a presentation concerning various models of artists’ cooperatives. Anderson has been directly involved with the organizing and direction of a number of successful cooperatives and understands the benefits and the potential pitfalls of a number of organizational schemes. All interested parties, especially practicing artists, are encouraged to attend.