Introduction

  Purpose

  The City's Support of Arts and   Culture

  Five Year Vision For Arts and   Culture in Phoenix

  Strategic Issues

  Themes and Goals

  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

  Acknowledgments

  The Phoenix Office of Arts and   Culture

  The Phoenix Arts and Culture   Commission

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City of Phoenix
Arts and Cultural Plan
2008-2012

Appendix A

CITY OF PHOENIX
ARTS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
PROVIDED BY CITY DEPARTMENTS

PHOENIX OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE

• Community Arts Support Grants
  • General Operating Support
  • Rental Support (Partnership with Phoenix Convention Center)
  • Community Arts Projects
  • Capacity Building
  • Arts Education for Schools and Organizations
  • Artist Career Development Grants (pilot program)
    
• Municipal Art Collection (Includes works commissioned through the Public Art Program, portable works, donations and loans of artwork to the city and the city’s historic art collection)
  • Public Art Program (Percent for Art)
  • Public Art Outreach Program
  • Artwork acquisitions, donations, loans, de accessions, maintenance and conservation
    
• Arts Education Program
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant Program (Partnership with Phoenix Elementary District and several local arts organizations – through 2007-08)
  • Advocacy, Research, Information Services and Technical Assistance
    
• Community Cultural Development
  • Partnership with Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix
    (Business Volunteers for the Arts)
  • Cultural Leadership Development
  • Cultural Facility Development
  • Cultural Facility Operating Agreements (Carver Museum)
  • Arts and Cultural Planning and Policy Development
  • Research, Information Services and Technical Assistance
  • Arts and Culture Advocacy
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Administer special grants from City to cultural organizations
    
• Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission (28 member advisory commission)

PHOENIX CONVENTION CENTER

• Symphony Hall (operate)
• Orpheum Theatre (operate)
• Herberger Theater Center (monitor operating agreement, provide utilities and building maintenance)
• Museo Chicano (monitor lease, provide utilities and building maintenance)
• Phoenix Museum of History (annual funding contract)

PARKS AND RECREATION

• Pueblo Grande Museum (operate)
• Phoenix Center for the Arts (operate)
• Shemer Art Center (operate)
• Steele Indian School Park - Memorial Hall, Grammar School, Dining Hall
  (operate)
• Heritage Square (operate)
• Tovrea Castle (operate)
• Special Events (coordinate parades, festivals)
• Peoples Pops (present Phoenix Symphony and other events)
• Phoenix Activity City (after school arts component)
  Maintenance of non-parks-related public art project sites (Arizona Falls,
  Sunnyslope Canal, etc.)
• Grounds Maintenance (Phoenix Art Museum and Phoenix Theatre)
  Cultural Facility Operating Agreements (Science Center, History Museum, Irish Cultural Center, Japanese Friendship Garden, Cricket Pavilion)
• Cultural Facility Utilities (Science Center)
• Historic Properties – Natural Spaces and Buildings
• Archaeological Assessments
• Phoenix Parks and Recreation Board
  

AVIATION

• Phoenix Airport Museum (Arizona arts and culture)
  • Art Collection (exhibition, maintenance, conservation, public education, promotion
  • Temporary Exhibition Program (exhibition, public education, promotion of Arizona artists)
  • Phoenix Avaiation Archive (preserves history of Phoenix airports)

PUBLIC WORKS

• Cultural Facility Operating Agreements, Maintenance, Utilities and Security (Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Theatre, Valley Youth Theatre, Children’s Museum of Phoenix)
• Cultural Facility Maintenance (Arizona Science Center, Phoenix Museum of History – funded by Phoenix Convention Center)

LIBRARY

• Burton Barr Library Gallery Art Exhibits, 1st Friday Exhibits, 1st Monday Art Salons
• Branch Library Exhibits and Events

ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES

• Cultural Facility Design and Construction

DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

• Artist Storefront Program
• Incorporation of Arts and Culture into Downtown Planning Initiatives

YOUTH AND EDUCATION OFFICE

• Channel 99 (City education channel includes arts programs)

PHOENIX CHANNEL 11

• Special Arts Programming

COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Small Business Assistance Program (assists arts based businesses)
• Dodge Theater (monitor operating agreement)

PLANNING

• Phoenix General Plan
• Downtown Urban Form Plan

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

• Development of Cultural Facilities in Historic Buildings

FINANCE

• Evaluation of Financial Capacity of Cultural Organizations
• Land Acquisition for Cultural Bond Projects
• Risk Management Issues for Public Art Projects

LAW

• Draft Cultural Facility Operating Agreements, Artists Contracts
  Oversee Condemnation Activities

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

• Permitting, Inspection, and Design Review for Public Art and Cultural Facility Projects
• Technical Assistance to Artists for Development Projects

POLICE

• Security for Monthly First Friday Event

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

• “Faces of Diversity” Noontime Seminars

NUMEROUS CITY DEPARTMENTS – PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

• (Streets, Parks, Public Works, Water, Transit, Aviation, Convention Center, Library, Neighborhood Services, Human Services, Housing, Planning, Historic Preservation)
  

 

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