Source Materials

Working Group Reports
Over the past year we have engaged a large and diverse group of leaders from various fields with whom to consult, plan, and strategize each of five established theme areas: arts education, artists services, arts access and participation, community and economic development through the arts, and technology and the arts. Click here to see a list of theme team members.

Each "theme team" included a working committee, which began their work in July 2004, to explore a protocol of inquiry that first assessed the relevance of the current plan and then outlined new goals, objectives, strategies, partnerships, performance measures and public value statements for the arts in relation to those themes. Their reports formed the basis for the conference structure and content and are the springboard toward the next Arts Plan NJ. See below for links to summary and full Conference Consensus Reports

The Proposition Statements
Because the five teams collectively show an array of possibilities, and because the non-profit arts industry already faces an array of formidable challenges, a sixth theme team was formed and charged with helping us understand what the New Jersey arts community/infrastructure of tomorrow may need to look like if it is to meet both the challenges of today and their current mission, as well as create its maximum public value to the people of New Jersey. What do the boards and staffs of tomorrow need to be? What skills will they need? What about the financial underpinnings and size and sources of operating revenues? What important partnerships will need to be strengthened or forged? What should happen first? Which issue poses the greatest threat to long term viability or the greatest opportunity for growth? Where are the voids? Where are the connections to be made?

This sixth working group, composed of leaders from both within the New Jersey cultural community and those who may have been examining these kinds of issues nationally, helped us to create a picture of what a healthy, vibrant, powerful, well positioned, well connected, properly resourced arts community/infrastructure might look like and what it might take to begin to achieve it. This work led to the development of the six Proposition Statements.

Overview
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Summary Reports
Arts Education (PDF)
Artist Services (PDF)
Arts Access & Participation (PDF)
Economic & Community Development (PDF)
Technology and the Arts (PDF)

Full Reports
Arts Education (PDF)
Artist Services (PDF)
Arts Access & Participation (PDF)
Economic & Community Development (PDF)
Technology and the Arts (PDF)

Sixth Theme Team Report
Proposition Statements(PDF)