The Local Arts Planning System:

Current and Alternative Directions

We would like to bring to your attention, also, the newest issue of New Village Online. Issue #3 features an insightful article on city and regional arts planning by Carl Grodach from the University of Texas School of Urban and Public Affairs. In it, Grodach proposes useful solutions to the "bifurcated arts planning" that marginalizes community-based arts in favor of prominent cultural institutions. His integrated framework for arts planning recommends creating a "comprehensive inventory and map of arts-based activity" as a first step.