WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD

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Strategic Plan 2005-2007

A.  Nurture Creativity and Cultivate Expression

The Wisconsin Arts Board works to enhance Wisconsin’s extraordinary environment for nurturing expression and encouraging creative work, encouraging artists to remain in Wisconsin while attracting and retaining new artists.

• Help develop and coordinate networks of people and resources.
• Provide grants that support creative work and cultivate expression.
• Provide services that support creative work and cultivate expression.

B.  Advance the Arts to and with the People of Wisconsin

• Promote the cultural, economic and educational value of the arts in Wisconsin through dynamic public relations efforts
• Provide systematic public recognition for local arts activities and activators
• Advocate effectively to public leaders about the importance of the arts

C.  Support the Arts in Education

• Catalyze the statewide effort to establish the arts as core curriculum, pre-K through 16, and as a tool to enhance education in other subjects
• Assist and support artists working in arts education, and arts educators, with grants and services
• Provide information and resources to arts education advocates and decision makers
• Advocate for inclusion of a diversity of culture in arts education curricula

D.  Draw Upon the Arts to Stimulate Community and Economic Development

Assert and continue the Wisconsin Arts Board’s leadership in and long history of community development through the arts; recognize that the ultimate purpose of economic and community development is to enable an excellent “quality of place” where the arts thrive.

• Attract and leverage increased investment in the arts in the state
• Work through partnerships among state agencies, local groups, regional groups, and national groups to focus attention on the beneficial influence of the arts on community development
• Act as a convener and connector for WI’s creative communities

E.  Serve as a Resource for People of Every Culture and Heritage throughout Wisconsin

• Align funding programs to reflect the values and goals of the Wisconsin Arts Board
• Increase the number and demographic distribution of people who participate in the Wisconsin Arts Board’s programs
• Function as Wisconsin’s center for information on arts and culture, and as an initiator of research on arts and culture
• Provide technical assistance
• Advocate and provide technical assistance for cultural inclusion within Wisconsin’s arts community

F.  Build the Organizational Capacity of the Wisconsin Arts Board

• Evaluate programs, staff and board for focus, effectiveness and range of services
• More clearly define and enhance the current roles and responsibilities of Arts Board members
• Continue to develop the expertise of the WAB staff as an investment in the Arts Board’s mission  

 

Updated: July 10, 2007