CHAPTER 5: PRIORITY ACTION PLAN CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SHORT TERM (1-3 YEARS | 2021-2024)
1. Hire an arts professional to join City Staff to manage the Creativity and Cultural Department in Frankfort including the Public Art Program and staffing the Creativity and Culture Commission. 2. Create a community calendar to identify programming throughout the City on one platform. 3. Develop a creativity grant program in partnership with Franklin County. This funding is to be administered by the Creativity and Cultural Commission to local artists, artisans, crafts people, and cultural organizations. 4. Apply to the State of Kentucky to become a Kentucky Creative District building upon the cultural inventory completed in the Arts Master Planning Process.
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Collaborate with other designated Kentucky Creative Districts (Bardstown, Berea, Covington, Danville, Maysville, Paducah) to advocate for state-level funding for the arts.
5. Develop the structure of the Artist in Residency and the Storyteller in Residency Programs. 6. Evaluate the viability of the creativity incentive program as detailed on p. 37.
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Gallery Incentive Program Live Music Incentive Program
7. Decentralize access to Frankfort’s arts and cultural offerings through the development of programming partnerships with existing public assets and community organizations, including the Prevention Park and Frankfort Downtown YMCAs, Frankfort Independent School District and Franklin County Public Schools, Frankfort Parks and Recreation, neighborhood
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