Goal 1: Neighborhoods & Downtown STRATEGY 1.1: Support Creativity in Neighborhoods Ensure that residents (and visitors) have access to arts and cultural offerings and activities in all of Garland’s neighborhoods and districts. Work with institutional and community partners to serve residents where they live, work, and play.
ACTION ITEM
LEAD AND PARTNERS
Art in Libraries: Provide access to cultural arts activities in different geographic areas of Garland by promoting cultural arts activities for youth and adults in library branches and enhancing library cultural arts programming opportunities through collaboration with other City departments. Support community arts activities through Library space activations (e.g., through performance activation or as a maker space). Identify overlapping goals and values between cultural arts and Libraries and explore them as opportunities for collaboration and partnership. If appropriate, convene working group between Library Board and Cultural Arts Commission to explore opportunities for collaboration and potential joint funding through grants.
Libraries, GCAC, PRCAD
Recreation Division: Use Recreation Centers and other areas of the Recreation Division to provide access to cultural arts activities in different areas of Garland for youth and adults, framed within the goals and priorities of the Cultural Arts Plan. Schedule annual report by the Recreation Division to the GCAC on current and future programs and other opportunities.
Recreation Division, GCAC
Participatory Murals: Continue and expand the practice by Office of Neighborhood Vitality and the Downtown Development Office of facilitating community participation in murals and other artmaking. Explore ways to include residents of different ages and cultural backgrounds in these activities. Spring Creek Amphitheater: Assess the feasibility of temporary or permanent programming at the Spring Creek Amphitheater in Winters Park. If feasible, identify potential partners to coordinate programming and operations.
GA R L A N D C U LT U R A L A R T S P L A N
Office of Neighborhood Vitality, PRCAD, community groups and residents GCAC, PRCAD
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