Strategic Plan 2006-2010

Partnerships Frameworks

Partnerships enhance awareness, understanding, and participation in the arts.

The Commission is best known, nationally and state-wide, as a leader in arts administration; as a catalyst for brokering partnerships; as a participant in learning cutting-edge arts research methods; and as an agency spearheading research, data collection, and analysis in order to support the role of the arts in people’s lives.

The Commission believes that:

1.      Partnerships that are strategic, entrepreneurial, or serendipitous can be valuable.

2.      Partnerships require knowledge of, trust, credibility and capacity of the partners.

3.      Partnerships and collaborations exist for a purpose or goal, and are not an end in themselves.

4.      Partnerships can include broadening, deepening, and diversifying our connections and reach.

5.      Partnerships can produce new and surprising positive results.

6.      Partnerships can help us learn new ways of approaching/addressing our work.

7.      Partnerships may bring new resources.

8.      Partnerships may require time to maintain and to develop to fruition.

9.      Partnerships should move us forward toward one or more of our own goals.

10.  Partnerships should weave the arts into the fabric of communities, working with both expected and non-traditional partners.

11.  Partnerships should have clear expectations that are realistic, compatible and documented.

12.  Partnerships should disband when the goal or project has been addressed or concluded.

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