Staff Reports
During a regular session of the Wimberley City Council last week, Mayor Jim Chiles and Council members David Cohen, Bob Clark, Bo Bowman, Chris Sheffield and Rebecca Minnick, presented a Community Excellence Award to Wimberley-Arts.org. Mayor ProTem and Place One council member Rebecca Minnick read from a prepared statement during the presentation that said, “WimberleyArts. org plays a foundational role in the character of Wimberley which is why we are honoring them with this rarely given award.”
Previously known as the Wimberley Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance, Wimberley-Arts.org has been instrumental in gaining designations for the city as a Texas Cultural District from the Texas Commission for the Arts in 2015, a Texas Film-Friendly city by the Texas Film Commission in 2019 and a Texas Music Friendly community from the Texas Music Office in 2022.
The organization’s public art program coordinated with artists to create murals at Alexis Point, the Wimberley Valley Museum and at the Oak Park Welcome Center, as well as engaging artists for the popular Bootiful Boots program, musical artists for the Stars Over Wimberley Concert Series, storytellers for StoryFest, poets for Sidewalk Haiku and galleries for the Wimberley Art Crawl. It also launched the renewal of the Deer Park Garden in 2024.
“The Community Excellence Award,” Minnick told members of the community in council chambers, “is given to organizations in Wimberley that contribute in an ongoing way to the character of our community, whether it is the way our community looks or how our community relates to our friends and neighbors and visitors.”
