The City's Support of Arts and Culture
Five Year Vision For Arts and Culture in Phoenix
Infuse Arts and Culture Into All Aspects of Phoenix's Life
Develop the Arts and Cultural Community
Generate Resources and Financial Support
Arts and Cultural Programs and Services Provided by City Departments
The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
The Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission
City of Phoenix
Arts and Cultural Plan
2008-2012
DEVELOP THE ARTS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY
GOAL 5– Create a cultural environment that reflects our city’s
demographics
Objective 5.1 - Strengthen the organizational capacity of ethnic and other
diverse cultural organizations to operate, create, perform and exhibit
Strategy 1 - Foster the organizational development of ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations through resource sharing, collaboration, consulting services, and participation in the city’s planned business-based arts incubator
Strategy 2 – Identify opportunities
to develop facilities to serve the needs of
ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations and artists
Strategy 3 – Foster resource
sharing and provide technical assistance and
funding to ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations producing
festivals
Strategy 4 – Monitor annual grants funding and encourage greater participation of ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations and artists in the city’s grants program
Objective 5.2 – Foster professional development opportunities for ethnic
artists
Strategy 1 - Develop programs to
increase participation of ethnic artists in
school-based and community activities
Strategy 2 - Facilitate opportunities for ethnic artists to meet and collaborate with other artists in the community
Strategy 3 - Facilitate initiatives to provide increased performance opportunities for ethnic artists through festival presenting organizations
Objective 5.3 – Promote ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations
and artists to the community
Strategy 1 - Develop education
programs and curricula that promote an
appreciation of ethnic arts
Strategy 2 - Institute strategies
to nurture arts activities in ethnically diverse
neighborhoods
Strategy 3 - Develop a mechanism to involve ethnic business leaders in
public/private networks and partnerships to promote the arts
Strategy 4 - Coordinate with other
agencies to ensure access to information
about ethnic and other diverse artists
Objective 5.4 – Strengthen the cultural diversity efforts of the Phoenix
Office of Arts and Culture (POAC) in partnership with other non-profit organizations,
city and state agencies, and educational institutions
Strategy 1 - Sponsor ongoing meetings
with ethnic and other diverse cultural
communities to identify issues and develop initiatives to address their needs
Strategy 2 - Promote the availability
of city sponsored workshops/technical
assistance to ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations, artists and
media
Strategy 3 - Review existing programs
and consider developing new programs to foster increased arts leadership within
ethnic and other diverse
communities
Strategy 4 - Ensure ethnic and
other diverse representation in all POAC
processes
Strategy 5 - Coordinate cultural diversity efforts and information sharing
with
other agencies and city departments
Strategy 6 - Develop and implement
cross-department initiatives to assist
ethnic and other diverse cultural organizations and artists
Strategy 7– Require Cultural Diversity Plans in annual grant applications from all organizations seeking General Operating Support from the POAC
