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
Purpose
The purpose of the Arts and Cultural Plan is to create a comprehensive vision of the city’s support for arts and culture to be implemented over the next five years. The plan seeks to answer the question, “How can Phoenix’s city government best help the arts and cultural life of Phoenix to thrive?”
The Arts and Cultural Plan is the product of a process involving citizens, the arts and cultural community, various city departments, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission.
The Arts and Cultural Plan assumes that the City will continue to implement its current arts and cultural programs. These programs are mentioned explicitly in the plan only when they relate directly to the goals, objectives or strategies.
While some of the
objectives and strategies set forth in the plan are achievable with current
city staff, volunteer and financial resources, new projects and programs
that may result from initiatives in the plan will require additional resources.
The plan includes a goal specifically related to the development of new
funding sources.
The Arts and Cultural Plan is an evolving document that will be reviewed
and updated periodically by the city to respond to changing needs, priorities
and new opportunities. The objectives and strategies listed in the plan
are offered as approaches to addressing each goal. Other opportunities may
present themselves during the implementation of the plan.
Implementation and updating of the Cultural Plan will be overseen by the Office of Arts and Culture and Arts and Culture Commission in partnership with various city departments.
Desired outcomes
and specific performance measures will be determined by the Arts and Culture
Commission in conjunction with staff of the Office of Arts and Culture and
other city departments as each strategy in the plan is undertaken. Desired
outcomes, performance measures and actual accomplishments will be reported
periodically to the City Council.