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Description
Arts Plan NJ, co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts(NJSCA), ArtPRIDE Foundation and New Jersey Network Foundation (NJN), is a statewide initiative to create a better New Jersey through and for the arts.
Arts Plan NJ advances implementation by:
- soliciting broad-based endorsement of the Plan's goals;
- sharing information on opportunities for participation;
- stimulating dialogue on key issues;
- creating partnerships between the arts and other vital sectors of New Jersey life;
- initiating programs that address the goals of the plan.
Arts Plan NJ was adopted in 1998 after a three-year highly inclusive public planning process led by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the NJN Foundation with support from an array of corporations and foundations. The plan laid out six broad goals and eight major strategic objectives. It served as a call to action for all who believe in the role of the arts in creating a better New Jersey to help implement the plan. It provided the large context in which organizations of all sorts could craft their strategic plans and connect with and support the arts in reaching common goals.
New Jersey is home to a remarkably diverse and high-quality arts community consisting of more than 700 organizations and programs and almost 50,000 professional artists. However, it became clear in the mid-1990's, with the arts under attack in Washington and a rapidly changing cultural and economic landscape, that the full value of the arts and the range of ways that they connect to and improve our lives were not fully identified and understood, let alone actualized.
The process that led to Arts Plan NJ was launched in 1995 by a Governor's Conference for the Arts. Afterward focus groups, roundtables, public hearings and surveys, residents confronted questions about the kind of communities they wanted to live in, how they valued the arts and how the arts could help them achieve their community goals. Since its adoption in 1998, Arts Plan NJ has brought together over 5,500 individuals and leaders from all walks of life both to create and implement it.
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