Down-to-earth DIA: New director wants museum to be accessible, connected

Sherri Welch - If Salvador Salort-Pons, the new director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, had things his way, he'd bring the city's "temple of art" down to the ground. Making physical changes to bring the museum's Woodward Avenue plaza to street level would go a long way toward making the DIA more accessible to people from all walks of life, he believes, and help position the museum to play a role in Detroit's revitalization. "We want to be an agent of change in the community," Salort-Pons said last week