On November 22, 2022, a subgroup of the Collaborative Arts of Plano presented to Council a request for a Cultural Arts Plan to be developed to advance our City’s arts and cultural resources. On February 12, 2024, the contract was awarded. Cultural Planning Group, LLC, spent the rest of 2024 and 2025 developing the plan with a robust outreach plan to reach as much of the community as possible with emphasis on our arts organizations, artists and the Council appointed Cultural Arts Advisory Group.
In the City of Plano’s Comprehensive Plan, the Arts & Culture Policies AC1- AC8 were deemed as priorities under the Social Environment and Sense of Community. Working with the Consultant and our diverse community, the Cultural Arts Plan creates the building blocks and roadmap to accomplish all eight of the actions in the Comprehensive Plan by:
· Determining audience programming preferences, ensuring that the sample of any statistical research is reflective of the community’s demographics
· An extensive review of the current state of the arts and culture in Plano, including analysis of the City’s comprehensive plan and other relevant documents to understand the policy environment for arts and culture in Plano
· Community input opportunities were robust, and inclusive and offered diverse ways to gather input and to review and confirm analysis
· Forecasting future needs, opportunities and trends
· Analyzing public art and identifying gaps
· Analyzing our Cultural Art Grants programming and making recommendations based on our future goals
· Assigning goals and responsibilities with a recommended schedule of completion for the first 3 years