<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ottawa Center for the Arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering Voices
Enriching Lives
Strengthening Community]]></description><link>https://www.ottawacenter.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:23:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ottawacenter.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Quiet Resilience: Why Sketching Your Neighbor Is a Civic Duty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written By Ottawa Center for the Arts  Board Member Doug Dalrymple In my previous life—the one involving four decades of IT executive meetings and enough fluorescent lighting to tan a mole—"resilience" was a buzzword we used for server clusters and disaster recovery. If the system crashed, you had a backup. If the backup failed, you prayed. But out here in the semi-rural heart of the Illinois River Valley, social resilience looks a lot less like a cloud server and a lot more like a drafty...]]></description><link>https://www.ottawacenter.org/post/the-quiet-resilience-why-sketching-your-neighbor-is-a-civic-duty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6990ccdd9f4f0b75dffec1fe</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:14:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/430f82_892c9a6b316345d993efd6d296f7e925~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ottawa Center</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>