Mission Statement

• The mission of the Arts Council of

Metropolitan Kansas City is to

advance and support the arts for the

benefit of the Kansas City region.

What is a Cultural Plan?

• A community cultural plan is

the result of a planning

process that takes stock of:

– community's arts and cultural

assets,

– needs, opportunities, and

resources,

– and establishes a blue print

for developing a community

wide supportive environment

for the future.

What is a Cultural Plan?

• It is a unique community wide

process that engages

– multiple sectors of stakeholders

of a city, county or region in a

collective dialogue to set a

common vision.

– the entire community in a

process that seeks and

identifies ways to develop and

utilize the creativity, arts and

culture of a community.

What is a Cultural Plan?

• The common vision guides

a community in achieving

– multiple community wide

goals,

– creating vitality, artistic,

economic, and social

relevance.

– identification of current

and future public/private

infrastructure and facilities

needs.

What is a Cultural Plan?

• It is long-term and organic,

– providing opportunity for

modification, growth,

– development and expansion

of the plan to meet the on-

going needs of a community

over time.

• It is an opportunity for

communities to become

– innovative, creative,

– more accessible, diverse, and

sustainable.

Examples• Shreveport, Louisiana

– Deliberately positioned the arts as

a partner in economic and

community development

• State of Kentucky

– Recruited 600 volunteers to

gather information about the

state’s cultural on a county by

county basis

– After six months 75% of counties

were embedding cultural planning

within county planning

Examples

• Houston, Texas

– A branding campaign “to make

arts and cultural districts exciting,

beautiful, and entertaining”

– Achieve stabilization and growth in

the cultural arts sector as part of

the regions economic base

• Lee’s Summit, Missouri

– Cultural Plan recommended

that the City should commit

to an art/cultural identity as an

economic and community

development strategy

Overview of Today

• What could a regional

Cultural Plan accomplish?

– Discuss possible goals and

vision

– Keep the end results in sight

as we go

– Report out

“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overview of Today

• What would an ideal

process look like for

creating a cultural

plan?

–Report Out

• Next Steps

Our Facilitator for Today

• Stephen Hardy is

– Director of Planning at

BNIM.

– Stephen believes in

the power of our

communities to

transform the way we

live, interact, and grow.

What could a Regional

Cultural Plan accomplish?

• How could a common vision influence

regional arts programs and facilities?

• What kind of guidance is needed to

promote collaborative decision

making?

• How could the plan benefit the

region?

What would an ideal process look

like for creating a Cultural Plan?

• How would we start?

• Who would be willing to be a

stakeholder?

• What might a planning steering

committee look like?

• How could we keep momentum?

• How will the process be supported?

• How could we ensure buy-in?