Task Force Members Present: Jeff Burdick, Liz Franklin,
Jim Berry, Steve Wall, Chris Monk, Kate Fields, Nicole
Taylor, Cindy Ornstein, Robin Maynard
Summary of description of vision:
Our vision for arts and culture in neighborhoods is
a place where:
Basic needs in neighborhoods are met so arts and culture
can be a higher priority;
There is full access to engagement in and funding to/for
arts and culture events;
Local artists, formal and informal, are celebrated and
involved;
Neighborhood input to/ownership of arts and culture
in their community, including planning, design, horticulture
and landscaping, public art, programs;
Free events and activities are plentiful.
Visioning Exercise Notes
What Flint’s
neighborhoods and their relationship to arts and
culture will look
like in 2009 In 2014
Adjectives, images, metaphors
-
“Taste of” Festival
in neighborhood
-
Block Club Parties
-
Neighborhoods
will be identified by arts & culture
not just geographic location (arts they have,
make, etc.)
-
Community Cultural Plan endowment
fund of $50K in 2009 and $100K IN 2014
-
Arts will be available to neighborhood
audiences at affordable prices
-
Neighborhood environments will be
more comfortable for arts and culture
-
Art visible as part of environment
in neighborhoods (murals, sculpture)
-
Neighborhood
will have trash cans decorated by artists in neighborhood
who have “adopted” them—“fancy
can”
-
More events geared toward African-Americans
-
There will be another Big Event
in addition to Crim
-
Arts and Culture incubator
where neighborhood folks
could come together
to create
arts and culture events,
a catalytic place or gathering
place (like places for
high tech incubation),
technical
assistance available
to make it happen
-
Flint Journal will have
a Neighborhood Section
in which
they can talk
about arts and culture
things happening
there
-
More people will feel
committed in their
neighborhood to
wanting to
see neighborhood
arts and culture
events and invest their
time (not just a small
group making
it happen)
-
There will be physical
spaces to have places
for arts and
culture
events
to happen
-
Community
engagement projects that have
local artists
in neighborhoods
working
with community
members, especially
youth, to make
art—also to connect across
neighborhoods
-
Harness musical
creativity of
youth—more
venues, recording
studio
-
Big central gathering
places, not
to isolate with
neighborhood
spaces
-
Tax national
chains to
support arts
efforts in
local neighborhoods
-
All school
children
in area
receive education
on
history
of Flint
and
Genesee
County to instill
greater
sense of pride
-
Funders
recognize
that
organizations that
are not
traditionally
arts
organizations should
be accepted
and supported
for
doing
work in arts
and culture
-
Cultural
Center
as
central space
for
neighborhoods to share
their
work
and
have
a place
-
Our
residents
understand
and
cherish
arts
and
culture
as
an
important
part
of
what
makes
a
successful neighborhood
and
community
-
Graffiti
is removed
in three
days
-
Look
at using
existing spaces
like churches
and schools,
help change
perception of
arts and
culture as
separate
-
Intergenerational
work happening
that will
pass on
cultural traditions—institutional memory
-
Collection
of oral
histories of
neighborhoods will
have occurred
-
Performing
arts talent
search programs,
starting at
the neighborhood
level
-
Local
artists are
highlighted in
activities
-
Directory
of formal
and informal
artists
-
Ethnic
art not
limited to
their arts “month”
-
Mechanism
for measuring
value added
would have
been in
place and
shown success
-
Local
architectural
group
in place
to set
and enforce
standards
-
Physical
improvements
will
have
occurred
with
broad
community
input
-
Community
that
recognizes
horticulture
and
landscaping
as
part
of
art
and
culture
-
No
abandoned,
boarded
up
housing
-
Endowment
for
community
and
neighborhood
activities
bigger--$one
million,
$5
million
Underlying assumptions:
Neighborhood input
Deal with basic problems of trash, crime, schools, houses
Neighborhoods should have full access to funding
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