Cicada 42x42" oil on panel ©Janice Mason Steeves 2011 The southern Ontario City of Woodstock received a $3.3 million dollar grant last year to renovate and expand their art gallery to four times the space with the ability to house world class exhibitions. With construction nearing completion, this past week, recently elected Mayor Pat Sobeski dealt the city and the arts a huge blow. In a last minute decision City Council decided to offer the space instead to a local college and leave the art gallery in the small cramped space they have occupied for the past twenty-eight years. In a rally last weekend, a huge group of arts supporters turned out to protest this move, waving signs that said: "ART IS FOR EVERYONE" . The mayor is now reconsidering his decision and may propose that the college and the art gallery share the space. This is a less than perfect decision for the art gallery but still affords them twice the space they had previously. Just before ...